Boston Seminar on the History of Women and Gender
presented by the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Schlesinger
Library at Radcliffe

Thursday, December 6, 2012 at 5:30 p.m. at the Massachusetts Historical
Society

Premilla Nadasen, Queens College
The Origins of the Domestic Worker Rights Movement
Comment: Ruth Milkman, City University of New York and Radcliffe Institute
for Advanced Study

This seminar paper is part of a book-length project. It follows four women
in particular, Geraldine Roberts, Mary McClendon, Geraldine Miller, and
Dorothy Bolden, to examine how and why they launched local campaigns for
the rights of domestic workers.

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