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).
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