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9 - Deploying Art and Design to Highlight the Dignity of Domestic Workers in Their Struggle for Labor Rights

from II - What Legal Design Can Do

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2024

By
Natalicia R. Tracy
Edited by
Miso Kim ,
Dan Jackson  and
Jules Rochielle Sievert
Miso Kim
Affiliation:
Northeastern University, Boston
Dan Jackson
Affiliation:
Northeastern University, Boston
Jules Rochielle Sievert
Affiliation:
Northeastern University, Boston
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Summary

This chapter details the tenacious efforts to bring dignity and justice to domestic workers in Massachusetts, culminating in the passage of the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights of 2014. Natalicia R. Tracy, who led the Brazilian Workers’ Center’s efforts to pass the law, provides us with a front-line view of this particular national workers’ rights movement, how it manifested in Massachusetts, and how her organization partnered with artists and designers to place workers’ dignity at the center of the successful organizing strategy.

Keywords

dignitydomestic workersworkers’ rights
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Legal Design
Dignifying People in Legal Systems
 , pp. 134 - 148
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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