Yvonne Martinez

About The Author

Yvonne Martinez is a retired labor negotiator/organizer.  She has been published by ZyZZyVa, Crab Orchard Review, Labor Notes, and NPR.  She also formerly wrote a local labor blog in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Her memoir in essays, Someday Mija, You'll Learn the Difference Between a Whore and a Working Woman was endorsed by Shondaland and covers her childhood in Salt Lake City/South Central LA/Boyle Heights and her work as a labor negotiator/organizer in California and the Pacific Northwest.  Her new book Scabmuggers is based on her experience as a National Fellow of the Harvard Trade Union Program in 1994.  Yvonne lives in Berkeley, CA.

Books by Yvonne Martinez

Scabmuggers

A Novel

By Yvonne Martinez
For anyone interested in the intersection of feminism and politics comes this inspiring, based-on-a-true-story tale of fighting back against sexism in the labor movement, set against the backdrop of Harvard in the 1990s.
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Someday Mija, You'll Learn the Difference Between a Whore and a Working Woman

A Memoir

By Yvonne Martinez
“Someday Mija, You’ll Learn the Difference Between a Whore and a Working Woman is a memoir that turns time on its head, circling through terror and joy with eloquence and becoming its own sacrament of resistance.” —Foreword Reviews, 5-star review
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