Whatever happened to the 8-hour day, ask immigrant woman home attendants doing 24-hour shifts?
Margaret Lee, organizer with the Aint I a Woman Campaign and Prof. Shirley Lung, former Dir. of the Center for Immigrants Rights and author of Criminalizing Work and Non-Work: The Disciplining of Immigrant and African American Workers demand that those benefiting the most from sweatshop labor are held accountable"whether in garment factories, home healthcare, or offices. A century after Sojourner Truths struggles against racism and sexism, women workers are refusing to be treated like slaves or second-class citizens.
produced by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash
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