Mujeres en Acción—Women in Action:  Race, Gender and Economic Self-Sufficiency in a Worker-Owned Housecleaning Cooperative

Luis Kong

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Mujeres en Acción—Women in Action: Race, Gender and Economic Self-Sufficiency in a Worker-Owned Housecleaning Cooperative

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- Luis Kong
- San Francisco State University, USA

Abstract

This paper investigates the experiences of Spanish-speaking Latina immigrants within a worker-owned housecleaning cooperative. Their learning challenges with language, gender, race and class issues in the process of organizing and managing their cooperative business is discussed from a feminist, learning perspective, popular education and community development approaches within immigrant populations.

Keywords: Cooperatives, Latina immigrants, feminist theory, popular education, community organizing, democratic social change

How to Cite: Kong, L. (2006) “Mujeres en Acción—Women in Action: Race, Gender and Economic Self-Sufficiency in a Worker-Owned Housecleaning Cooperative”, Adult Education Research Conference. 1(2006).