DWU Bibliography

Browne, Erline and Ai-Jen Poo. "Plight of the Domestics: What about the nanny?"
Article can be found at: http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=dc44e01412a55c6d99dffffdbc3e7a98&_docnum=3&wchp=dGLbVtz-zSkVb&_md5=3beaf2cb86c0274c7620ae4fc69a2884

Domestic Workers United, The Respect Our Work Newsletter. April 2005.
Note: A paper copy can be obtained from Domestic Workers United by calling (718)220-7391 x11 or 23.

Dudden, Faye E. "Serving Women, Household Service in Nineteenth-Century America" (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1983);

Human Rights Watch, "Migrant Domestic Workers Face Abuse in the U.S." June 14, 2001. http://hrw.org/english/docs/2001/06/14/usdom176.htm

Katzman, David. "Seven Days a Week: Women and Domestic Service in Industrializing America" (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1981);

Lee, Chisun. "Domestic Disturbance" The Village Voice.
(http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0211/lee.php)

Lee, Chisun. "Breaking Their Silence" The Village Voice.
(http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0214/lee.php)

Lee, Chisun. "The Heart Of The Work" The Village Voice.
(http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0216/lee.php)

Lexis Nexis Academic Search Page
Note: On the Lexis Nexis search page, any search for Domestic Workers United, domestic workers, domestic work, domestic work abuse, etc will provide a list of insightful articles on these topics from around the world.

"Maid to Order: Modern-day Slavery in the USA" printed in Colorlines 2001. http://www.ips-dc.org/campaign/maid.htm

New York AFL-CIO Legislative Alert

Palmer, Phyllis. "Domesticity and Dirt: Housewives and Domestic Servants in the United States, 1920-1945" (1989).

Richardson, Lynda. "A Union Maid? Actually a Nanny, Organizing" The New York Times.
Article can be found at: http://query.nytimes.com/search/abstract?res=F40616FA355E0C778CDDAD0894DA404482

Romero, Mary. "Maid in the U.S.A." (New York: Routledge, 1992).

Todorova, Aleksandra. "Nanny Nightmares" Portfolio.
Article can be found at: http://journalism.nyu.edu/portfolio/todorova/nanny_nightmares.html

Villadiego, Rita. "Bill of Rights to Protect Nannies, Housekeepers Filed" The Filipino Express Online.
Article can be found at: http://www.filipinoexpress.com/19/10_news.html

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