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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored Podcast #84: Domestic Workers Unite, with Premilla Nadasen
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Decades before the signing of New York’s landmark Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights, another group of household workers were taking collective action to push for fair wages and working conditions. Barnard College historian Premilla Nadasen’s new book, Household Workers Unite, explores the little known history of the black domestic workers who le...