{"id":19310,"date":"2023-04-28T08:51:48","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T06:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arbark.se\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=19310"},"modified":"2023-04-28T08:51:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T06:51:49","slug":"book-launch-cleaning-up-portugese-womens-fight-for-labour-rights-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/arbark.se\/sv\/events\/book-launch-cleaning-up-portugese-womens-fight-for-labour-rights-in-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Book launch: Cleaning up. Portugese women\u00b4s fight for labour rights in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please join Between the Lines authors for an international conversation on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/btlbooks.com\/book\/cleaning-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><em>Cleaning Up: Portuguese Women\u2019s Fight for Labour Rights in Toronto,<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;featuring a packed panel of feminist labour historians, community activists, and union organizers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Featuring:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Susana P. Miranda and Franca Iacovetta<\/strong>, authors<\/p>\n<p><strong>Silke Neunsinger<\/strong>, Swedish Labour Movement Archives &amp; Library and Uppsala University<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marcie Ponte<\/strong>, Executive Director, Working Women Community Centre, Toronto&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sidney Pratt<\/strong>, Recife, Brazil, Founder of Cleaners\u2019 Action (Toronto)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Idalina Azevedo<\/strong>, former cleaner and union steward, Toronto<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wendy Iler<\/strong>, Ottawa, former union organizer, Food and Service Workers Of Canada (FASWOC)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nina Trige Andersen<\/strong>, historian &amp; journalist, Society for Labour History (SFAH), Copenhagen<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gabriela Castro<\/strong>, former St Christopher House staff and Toronto Multicultural Television newscaster, PHD at the University of the Azores<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><strong>May 4, 2023 at 1 \u2013 2:30 pm (EST)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch it on Zoom: https:\/\/us06web.zoom.us\/j\/84981852926<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the book:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This fascinating book uncovers the little-known, surprisingly radical history of the Portuguese immigrant women who worked as night-time office cleaners and daytime \u201ccleaning ladies\u201d in postwar Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on union records, newspapers, and interviews, feminist labour historians Susana P. Miranda and Franca Iacovetta piece together the lives of immigrant women who bucked convention by reshaping domestic labour and by leading union drives, striking for workers\u2019 rights, and taking on corporate capital in the heart of Toronto\u2019s financial district. Despite being sidelined within the labour movement and subjected to harsh working conditions in the commercial cleaning industry, the women forged critical alliances with local activists to shape picket-line culture and make an indelible mark on their communities.<\/p>\n<p>Richly detailed and engagingly written,&nbsp;<em>Cleaning Up<\/em>&nbsp;is an archival treasure about an undersung piece of working-class history in urban North America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join Between the Lines authors for an international conversation on&nbsp;Cleaning Up: Portuguese Women\u2019s Fight for Labour Rights in Toronto,&nbsp;featuring a packed panel of feminist labour historians, community activists, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19311,"template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[101672,101674,136,380,101673,276],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19310","1":"tribe_events","2":"type-tribe_events","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"tag-book-launch","7":"tag-facklig-organisering","8":"tag-fackligt-arbete","9":"tag-feminism","10":"tag-hotell-och-restaurang","11":"tag-kvinnor","12":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arbark.se\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/19310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arbark.se\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arbark.se\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arbark.se\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arbark.se\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/19310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19313,"href":"https:\/\/arbark.se\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/19310\/revisions\/19313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arbark.se\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arbark.se\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arbark.se\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19310"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arbark.se\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=19310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}