In a day's work : the fight to end sexual violence against America's most vulnerable workers / Bernice Yeung.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yeung, Bernice, author.

Contributor:

Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence in the workplace.

Sexual abuse victims.

Women immigrants--Crimes against.

Women immigrants.

Women foreign workers.

United States.

Sexual harassment--United States.

Sexual harassment.

Women foreign workers--Crimes against--United States.

Women immigrants--Crimes against--United States.

Sexual abuse victims--United States.

Sex crimes--United States.

Sex crimes.

Violence in the workplace--United States.

Physical Description:

225 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : The New Press, [2018]

Summary:

Apple orchards in bucolic Washington State. Office parks in Southern California under cover of night. The home of an elderly man in Miami. These are some of the workplaces where female workers have suffered brutal sexual assault and shocking harassment at the hands of their employers, often with little or no official recourse. In this harrowing yet often inspiring tale, investigative journalist Bernice Yeung exposes the epidemic of sexual violence levied against women farmworkers, domestic workers, and janitorial workers and charts their quest for justice in the workplace. Yeung takes readers on a journey across the country, introducing us to women who came to America to escape grinding poverty only to encounter sexual violence in the United States. In a Day's Work exposes the underbelly of economies filled with employers who take advantage of immigrant women's need to earn a basic living. When these women find the courage to speak up, Yeung reveals, they are too often met by apathetic bosses and underresourced government agencies. But In a Day's Work also tells a story of resistance, introducing a group of courageous allies who challenge dangerous and discriminatory workplace conditions alongside aggrieved workers -- and win. Moving and inspiring, this book will change our understanding of the lives of immigrant women. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: the weight of silence

Finding the most invisible cases

The open secret

Behind closed doors and without a safety net

When only the police and the prosecutor believe you

All that we already know

The ways forward

¡Sí se pudo! Yes we did!

Epilogue: "I survived."

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-214) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

ISBN:

9781620973158

1620973154

OCLC:

1004578178

Publisher Number:

99980683372