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PUBLICATIONS

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Forthcoming

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“Collective Care Is Essential: Puerto Rican Feminist Activists and Welfare Rights Organizing after 1960,” Journal of American Ethnic History. Forthcoming, Fall 2026.

 

“Unruly Domestics: Puerto Rican Women Care Workers, Reproductive Labor, and Feminist Political Organizing in the United States,” chapter for edited volume Care & Capitalism in the Twentieth Century, edited by Kirsten Swinth & Sarah Knott. Forthcoming, Duke University Press in 2026.

 

“The Making of a ‘Mainstream Hispanic’ Feminist: Carmen Delgado Votaw, the National Conference of Puerto Rican Women, and the History of US Feminisms after 1970,” chapter for edited volume, Latina Politica: U.S. Political Histories, edited by A.K. Sandoval-Strausz, Benjamin Johnson, and Geraldo Cadava. Accepted, Penn University Press.

 

“Joyful Collaborations: Antonia Pantoja in California and the History of Education for Community Development,” chapter for edited volume, Rooted+Relational: Archives, Memory & The Present Past of Puerto Rico, edited by the Center for Puerto Rican Studies. Forthcoming, edited volume to be published by the Center for Puerto Rican Studies Press.

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Published​

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Emma Amador, “Caring for Labor History,” Forum: Starting from Home: Four New Spirits Engage Labor History, LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History (17:4, December 2020): 65-69.


Emma Amador, “Linked Histories of Welfare, Labor, and Puerto Rican Migration,” Forum: Puerto Rico and the United States at Critical Junctures, Modern American History (2: Fall 2019): 165-168.​

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Emma Amador, “Women Ask Relief for Puerto Ricans:” Social Workers, the Social Security Act and Puerto Rican Communities, 1933-1943,” LABOR: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas (12:3, December 2016): 105-129.​
 

Emma Amador, "Organizing Puerto Rican Domestics: Resistance and Household Labor Reform in the Puerto Rican Diaspora after 1930," ILWCH: International Labor and Working-Class History (No. 88 Fall 2015), pp 67-86. 

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