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Title details for In a Day's Work by Bernice Yeung - Available

In a Day's Work

The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America's Most Vulnerable Workers

by Bernice Yeung
Jean Ann Douglass
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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 Day's Work exposes the underbelly of economies filled with employers who take advantage of immigrant women's 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 Day's Work also tells a story of resistance, introducing a group of courageous allies who challenge dangerous and discriminatory workplace conditions alongside aggrieved workers—and win. Moving and inspiring, this book will change our understanding of the lives of immigrant women.

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  • Release date

    December 10, 2019

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781666557718
      • File size: 199115 KB
      • Duration: 06:54:49

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      If writing about systematic sexual harassment and abuse can be emotionally exhausting, then having to narrate those accounts cannot be any easier. Therefore, Jean Ann Douglass's somber tone makes perfect sense. Yeung explores how women in vulnerable employment situations routinely encounter sexual harassment and violence. Yeung interviews women in industries such as office cleaning, domestic work, and agriculture, illustrating how they must navigate demanding work and unwanted advances, often with little recourse. Douglass's steady narration avoids strong emphasis, which helps listeners sit with the rawness of the experiences shared. While Yeung's identification of organizations looking to help is encouraging, Douglass's narration will stay with listeners long after they finish the audiobook. L.E. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 12, 2018
      In this exposé of workplace sexual violence against women, Yeung, a journalist from the Center for Investigative Reporting, amplifies the voices of some of the American economy’s most marginalized workers. As in the companion radio and television series, Rape in the Fields, the book breaks ground by exposing the ubiquity and severity of the abuse leveled against female farmworkers, domestic workers, and janitors by their employers. The author mitigates the difficult material by bringing humanity, empathy, and hope to each page. There are plenty of heroes to celebrate, such as Vicky Márquez, a former janitor who now does site visits for a nonprofit with the mission “of fighting labor exploitation among janitors working the graveyard shift,” and the women who testified against Evans Fruit for overlooking information that their orchard foreman was sexually harassing female farmworkers. Moments of indignation in Yeung’s writing feel completely justifiable. “Though these cases are described as he-said, she-said cases, the woman’s account is seldom given equal consideration,” she notes. The book concludes with guardedly hopeful descriptions of workplace training programs, government regulation, and union advocacy. Even more moving, however, is the sense of a reporter deeply committed to her sources and her material.

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