A classic account of low-wage workers’ organization that the US Department of Labor calls one of the “100 books that has shaped work in America.”
As low-wage organizing campaigns have been reignited by the Fight for 15 movement and other workplace struggles,
Poor Workers’ Unions is as prescient as ever.
قائمة المحتويات
Introduction: Organizing in the Margins
1. Unionizing the Movements: Economic Initiatives in the Civil Rights, New Left, and Women’s Movements
2. The Fight Within: Trade Unions Respond to the Movements
3. Building Economic Justice for All: A National Network for No-Wage and Low-Wage Workers 4. Community Organizing Goes to Work: ACORN’S United Labor Unions
5. “Organizing Where We Live and Work”: The Independent Workers’ Center Movement
6. Knocking at Labor’s Door: Organizing Workfare Unions in the ’90s
7. Reviving an Activist Culture: The AFL-CIO’s Turn Toward Organizing Conclusion: Imagining a New Movement
عن المؤلف
Journalist and labor activist Vanessa Tait received her Ph D in sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her writings have appeared in New Labor Forum, Critical Sociology, the Boston Phoenix and the Guardian.
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