In a Day?s Work : The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America?s Most Vulnerable Workers

Yeung, Bernice

ISBN 10: 1620975998 / ISBN 13: 9781620975992

Published by The New Press, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: In a Day?s Work : The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America?s Most Vulnerable Workers
• Publisher: The New Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1620975998
• ISBN 13: 9781620975992
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

"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. These are some of the workplaces where women have suffered brutal sexual assaults and shocking harassment at the hands of their employers, often with little or no official recourse. In this heartrending but ultimately inspiring tale, investigative journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist Bernice Yeung exposes the epidemic of sexual violence levied against the low-wage workers largely overlooked by #MeToo, and charts their quest for justice.

In a Day's Work reveals the underbelly of hidden economies teeming with employers who are in the practice of taking advantage of immigrant women. But it also tells a timely story of resistance, introducing a group of courageous allies who challenge the status quo of violations alongside aggrieved workers―and win.

About the Author

Bernice Yeung is an investigative journalist at ProPublica, and her work has appeared in the New York Times, PBS Frontline, New York magazine, and others. The author of In a Day's Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America's Most Vulnerable Workers (The New Press), she lives in Berkeley, California.