Hello and welcome to Business Daily with me, Jane Wakefield.

In today's program, recorded at the TED Women event in Palm Springs, I'm hearing stories

from people fighting for the forgotten segments of the economy.

These are jobs that are here to stay, but they're so profoundly undervalued and invisibleized in our

economy. I'll be hearing about the grassroots organization striving to improve the lives

and rights of domestic workers. But upon arrival, communication with her family was cut off.

She was never paid and never ultimately allowed to go to school.

So she was essentially enslaved for 15 years.

And from one woman who says we must not forget the importance of average people.

Performing in the middle is a way to kind of check out and to not engage because you don't think that your voice

is going to be valued or heard. And we see that a lot in workplaces. Business Daily here on the BBC.

IGen Pooh has dedicated her life to bettering the lives of domestic workers in the US.

She's executive director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance,

who became an activist after her grandfather had to be moved to a nursing home

and had to share a room with several other patients.

The place smelled like mould and death, Poo wrote in her book,

The Age of Dignity, preparing for the elder boom in a changing America.

She spearheaded numerous campaigns, even got invited to Hollywood's Golden Globe Awards by the actress Meryl Streep,

and fought hard for legislation such as the Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights, which aims to limit working hours

and guarantee paid time off at a national level

and will be introduced to Congress in 2019.

I caught up after she delivered a moving talk on the TED stage

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