90% of workers lack health care benefits.
33% of workers subjected to abuse
67% of workers never receive overtime pay even though …
43% work more than 50 hours per week AND
35% work more than 60 hours per week.

Whose that employer? Wal-Mart you may wonder. The subcontracted workers rebuilding New Orleans?

Nope. This is the workplace reality of the Haitian, Ecuadorian, Bhutanese and other immigrant women pushing strollers, buying groceries, scrubbing toilets, changing diapers, preparing breakfast, lunch and dinner and otherwise keepin homes functional and raising children.

Such are some of the working conditions employed in the apartments, condos and private homes of metropolitan New York according to landmark research conducted by Domestic Workers United and the Datacenter.

For more info about DWU, see this summary in the Social Justice Wiki. (Note: that may be another resource that merits another look. and a whole new blog … seems to be an online resource created by students of Robin ‘yo Mama Dysfnktional’ DG Kelley.)

Home isn’t just where the heart is.
Home is where labor is and begins.

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