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- Title
Putting Their Hands on Race: Irish Immigrant Workers and Southern Black Domestic Workers.
- Authors
Duffy, Jennifer Nugent
- Abstract
"Putting Their Hands on Race: Irish Immigrant Workers and Southern Black Domestic Workers" by Danielle T. Phillips-Cunningham explores the shared experiences of Irish immigrant women and African American domestic workers in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The author uses intersectional feminist theory to analyze how both groups were racialized as inferior due to their manual labor. The book highlights the racial stigma of domestic work and its impact on Irish and Black women, as well as their efforts to challenge and redefine racial boundaries through labor organizing and activism. While the analysis is uneven in some areas, the book provides valuable insights into the social construction of race and the experiences of marginalized women in the United States.
- Subjects
HOUSEHOLD employees; RACE; IRISH people; FOREIGN workers; AFRICAN American women
- Publication
Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, 2024, Vol 21, Issue 2, p160
- ISSN
1547-6715
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1215/15476715-11021094