Maureen Purtill

Maureen Purtill is the Program Director for the Graton Day Labor Center in Northern California. She earned her PhD from UCLA in the Department of Urban Planning, and her dissertation research explored

A labor of love

Yesterday, September 26, 2013, a mass movement succeeded in persuading Governor Jerry Brown to sign the California Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. How did they do it? By inventing a new way of combating injustice.

By Maureen Purtill

/ 27 Sep 2013