{"product_id":"solidarity-care-domestic-worker-activism-in-new-york-city-9781439922460","title":"Solidarity \u0026 Care: Domestic Worker Activism in New York City","description":"The members of the Domestic Workers United (DWU) organization--immigrant women of color employed as nannies, caregivers, and housekeepers in New York City--formed to fight for dignity and respect and to \"bring meaningful change\" to their work. Alana Lee Glaser examines the process of how these domestic workers organized against precarity, isolation, and exploitation to help pass the 2010 New York State Domestic Worker Bill of Rights, the first labor law in the United States protecting in-home workers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSolidarity \u0026amp; Care \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the political mobilization of diverse care workers who joined together and supported one another through education, protests, lobbying, and storytelling. Domestic work activists used narrative and emotional appeals to build a coalition of religious communities, employers of domestic workers, labor union members, and politicians to first pass and then to enforce the new law. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through oral history interviews, as well as ethnographic observation during DWU meetings and protest actions, Glaser chronicles how these women fought (and continue to fight) to improve working conditions. She also illustrates how they endure racism, punitive immigration laws, on-the-job indignities, and unemployment that can result in eviction and food insecurity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The lessons from \u003ci\u003eSolidarity \u0026amp; Care \u003c\/i\u003ealong with the DWU's precedent-setting legislative success have applications to workers across industries. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll royalties will go directly to the Domestic Workers United\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlana Lee Glaser \u003c\/b\u003eis an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at St. John's University. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50390946873618,"sku":"9781439922460","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_08b38fab-d60c-4d26-ae48-75edb8f61739.jpg?v=1728961172","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/solidarity-care-domestic-worker-activism-in-new-york-city-9781439922460","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}