Published in 2004
344 pages
Premilla Nadasen is Associate Professor of History at Queens College, CUNY. She received her PhD from Columbia University. She is the author of several books on welfare, including the award-winning Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States. A long-time scholar-activist, Nadasen works closely with domestic workers’ rights organizations, for which she has written policy briefs and served as an expert academic witness. She also writes about household labor, social movements, and women’s history for Ms., the Progressive Media Project, and other media outlets.
What is this book about?
This text awesomely articulates the perspective of the women involved in the welfare rights movement- particularly the women of color who were involved; who’s stories are often times left out of the larger conversations of the Civil Rights Movement, the Women’s Rights Movement, and the Welfare Rights Movement.
