Region: United States of America

Immigrant Nation

“Immigrant Nation” is an online interactive documentary beginning Summer 2013. The first video is about a domestic worker and...

Application of the Fair Labor Standards Act to Domestic Service

This final rule revises the duties that fall within the term companionship and the major effect is that more domestic service workers will...

Street Vendors Unite: Recommendations for Improving the Regulations on Street Vending in New York City

This paper outlines modest proposals for improving the regulations on street vending in New York City, developed with and on behalf of the...

Dogtown Redemption

A documentary trailer that tells the story of Americans who survive by recycling trash in Oakland, CA.   Visit the Dogtown Redemption website Redemption...

United-States-of-America-Law: Hawaii Act 248 – An Act Relating to Labor (Domestics) (United States)

Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights for the state of Hawaii.

The Legal Regulation of Street Vendors in New York City

This paper looks into the legal status of street vendors in New York City in the 1980s and 1990s and illustrates that despite persistent...

Dogtown Redemption Film Website

Massachusetts Domestic Workers Bill of Rights

Webpage for the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights in the state of Massachusetts, with links to multilingual resource pages.

Law: New York Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights

Webpage for the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights in the state of New York, with links to multilingual resource pages

New York State, Article 15, Human Rights Law

This executive law is enacted to ensure that every individual shall have an equal opportunity to participate fully in the economic, cultural...