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Political Pawns: Visible for the Campaign. Invisible for Protection. is a sharp, personal, and worker-centered memoir/commentary about the people who power campaigns, care systems, gig platforms, homes, and movements - while too often remaining unprotected themselves. Carmel Foster turns campaign language into a mirror: targeting, scripts, Story of Self, metrics, voter contact, turnout, and ""opportunity"" become tools for exposing how workers can be praised, used, photographed, trained, and counted - without being protected. Through lived experience in campaign work, caregiving, domestic work, and gig labor, this book asks a central question: If workers are essential to democracy, care, and public life, why is their survival treated as optional? Political Pawns also introduces plain-language worker education around AB5, the ABC test, hidden labor, documentation, and the importance of matching the label of the work to the reality of the work. This book is for domestic workers, caregivers, gig workers, campaign workers, organizers, immigrants, unhoused workers, and anyone whose labor has been useful to a system before their safety was taken seriously. Part memoir, part worker-education text, and part public accountability record, Political Pawns is a call to document the work, name the harm, and refuse to let worker stories become content without protection.

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