History 383 - SEM:US DOMEST WORKER ORGANIZNG

Spring
2018
01
4.00
Jennifer Guglielmo
T 01:00-04:00
Smith College
30067-S18
SAGE 16
jgugliel@smith.edu
This is an advanced community-based research seminar in which students work closely with archival materials from the Sophia Smith Collection and other archives to explore histories of resistance, collective action and grassroots organizing among domestic workers in the United States, from the mid-19th century to the present. This work has historically been done by women of color and been among the lowest paid, most vulnerable and exploited forms of labor. We work closely with and in service of several organization of women of color, immigrant women and families, helping them to use history as an organizing tool in their current campaigns. This means meeting with domestic work organizers in person and virtually, collecting archival materials for them, and making the materials accessible in an online interactive timeline and other formats. Recommended: previous course in U.S. women’s history and/or relevant coursework in HST, SWG, AFR, SOC, LAS, etc. Permission of the instructor required
Instructor Permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores
Permission is required for interchange registration during all registration periods.