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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.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sexual harassment--United States.
- Sexual harassment.
- Women foreign workers--Crimes against--United States.
- Women foreign workers.
- Women immigrants--Crimes against--United States.
- Women immigrants.
- Sexual abuse victims--United States.
- Sexual abuse victims.
- Sex crimes--United States.
- Sex crimes.
- Violence in the workplace--United States.
- Violence in the workplace.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- "A timely, intensely intimate, and relevant exposé." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) The Pulitzer Prize finalist's powerful examination of the hidden stories of workers overlooked by #MeToo Apple orchards in bucolic Washington State.Office parks in Southern California under cover of night.The home of an elderly man in Miami.
- 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 and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-62097-316-2
- OCLC:
- 1028524230
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