In A Days Work, Bernice Yeung
In A Days Work, Bernice Yeung
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In A Day's Work
The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against Americas Most Vulnerable Workers

Author: Bernice Yeung

Narrator: Jean Ann Douglass

Unabridged: 6 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/04/2019


Synopsis

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 yet often inspiring tale, investigative journalist Bernice Yeung exposes the epidemic of sexual violence levied against women farmworkers, domestic workers, and janitorial workers and charts their quest for justice in the workplace. Yeung takes listeners 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 Days Work exposes the underbelly of economies filled with employers who take advantage of immigrant womens need to earn a basic living. When these women find the courage to speak up, Yeung reveals that they are too often met by apathetic bosses and under-resourced government agencies. But In a Days Work also tells a story of resistance, introducing a group of courageous allies who challenge dangerous and discriminatory workplace conditions alongside aggrieved workersand win. Moving and inspiring, this book will change our understanding of the lives of immigrant women.

About Bernice Yeung

Bernice Yeung is an award-winning journalist who works for The Center of Investigative Reporting. A Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, her work has appeared in The New York Times, Mother Jones, and The Guardian. She currently resides in Berkeley, California.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Gary

I find it incredibly upsetting how many women and girls have been cruelly and horrifically hurt and murdered because they prostitutes. And distressing how most of society seems not to care that much as if these women and girls are not fully human . Prostitutes are human beings, often beautiful human......more

Truly a must read. In a Day's Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America's Most Vulnerable Workers. A nominee for the Pulitzer and winner of the PEN/Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, this book focuses on sexual violence against women farmworkers, domestic workers, and janitorial workers - a......more

Goodreads review by Miranda

"To start, there is the predictable list of barriers: fear of losing their jobs, fear of being blamed by their husbands and partners, and the immutable sense of shame. They're terrified of what it might feel like to talk about the assault, and they have real concerns about what it would mean for the......more

Goodreads review by Simon

Was very informative! Both about sexual violence in the workplace and the organizing done to combat it. While there were points of criticism for unions, overall it was very hopeful in the power of workers to fight for better conditions Some negatives are descriptions of sexual assault and a racial sl......more