Premilla Nadasen is a professor of history at Barnard College and writes and speaks on issues of race, gender, social policy and labor history. She is most interested in visions of social change, and the ways in which poor and working-class people, especially women of color, have fought for social justice. She has published extensively on the multiple meanings of feminism, alternative labor movements, and grass-roots community organizing.
In addition to her writing, Nadasen has been engaged with social justice work for many years, including anti-apartheid and anti-racist activism, labor rights, feminism, immigrant rights, and low-income women’s advocacy. For the past decade she has worked closely with the domestic workers’ rights movement. Nadasen bridges scholarship and activism and strives to make her research accessible and relevant. She speaks on college campuses and to community and activist groups and has written for newspapers, blogs and magazines.
She is the author most recently of Household Workers Unite (Beacon 2015), a history of domestic worker activism in the post-war period.
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Rethinking the Welfare Rights Movement
[2012] -
Welfare in the United States
[2009] -
Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the US
[2005] -
Domestic Workers Take it to the Streets
Ms. Magazine -
Tell Dem Slavery Done: Domestic Workers United and Transnational Feminism
Scholar and Feminist On-Line -
Domestic Workers Organize!
Working USA -
Valuing Domestic Work
New Feminist Solutions Policy Report -
Is it Time to Jump Ship? Historians Rethink the Waves Metaphor
Feminist Formations -
Anything but 'Secure'
Ms. Magazine [2012] -
Nelson Mandela Remembered Near And Far On National Day Of Prayer
CBS New York [December 8, 2013] -
Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement
Beacon Press -
The Unsung 'sheroes' of the Labor Movement
MSNBC [September 9, 2015] -
Book Details How Household Labor Unionized, Started Movement
NPR Atlanta [August 25, 2015] -
How A Group Of African American Women Built A Strong And Viable Household Workers' Movement
Wisconsin Public Radio [September 9, 2015] -
Recognizing the Household Workers on the Front Lines of Protest in Montgomery, Ala., 1955
The Root [November 23, 2015] -
Premilla Nadasen On Domestic Workers, Poverty, Cops & What Is to Be Done
Huffington Post [October 31, 2015] -
Book Discussion on Household Workers Unite
C-SPAN [October 6, 2015] -
The Real Value of Domestic Labor
Al Jazeera [September 7, 2015] -
New book chronicles household workers' inclusion in the labor movement
MSNBC [September 1, 2015] -
How Black Domestic Workers Organized Without 'The Help'
Vice [August 25, 2015] -
Belabored Podcast #84: Domestic Workers Unite, with Premilla Nadasen
Dissent Magainze [August 21, 2015] -
A History of Domestic Worker Organizing
WGBH Boston [February 5, 2016]