Documentary Films - Domestic Workers Make History - Labor History Resource Project

Documentary Films – Domestic Workers Make History

We are activist scholars — Jennifer Guglielmo, Michelle Joffroy, Diana Sierra Becerra — collaborating with the domestic workers movement (nannies, house cleaners, and home care workers) to give workers greater access to their own histories and cultures of resistance. These are educational tools for everyone to learn about these foundational histories.

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Demanding Justice: A History of Domestic Workers

“You Just Want to Feel Free”: Domestic Workers and Antiblackness

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