Bernice Yeung
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Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"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...
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English
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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. 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...