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© 2015 by Premilla Nadasen
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Text design and composition by Kim Arney

Chapter 4 was adapted from Premilla Nadasen, “Power, Intimacy, and Contestation: Dorothy Bolden and Domestic Worker Organizing in Atlanta in the 1960s,” in Intimate Labors: Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care, 204–16, ed. Eileen Boris and Rhacel Salazar Parreñas. © 2010 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. University. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, Stanford University Press, sup.org.

Chapter 6 was adapted from Premilla Nadasen, “Citizenship Rights, Domestic Work, and the Fair Labor Standards Act,” Journal of Policy History 24, no. 1 (January 2012): 74–94. Reprinted with permission © Donald Critchlow and Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Nadasen, Premilla.
Household workers unite : the untold story of African American women who built a movement / Premilla Nadasen.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8070-1450-9 (hardback)
ISBN 978-0-8070-3319-7 (paperback)
ISBN 978-0-8070-1451-6 (ebook)
1. Women household employees—United States—History—20th century. 2. African American household employees—History—20th century. 3. Household employees—Labor unions—United States—History—20th century. 4. Women labor leaders—United States—History—20th century. 5. African American labor leaders—United States—History—20th century. I. Title.
HD6072.2.U5N33 2015
331.4’78116408996073—dc23
2015003720