Vanessa Tait

Poor Workers' Unions

Rebuilding Labor from Below (Completely Revised and Updated Edition)

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Illuminates key connections between the social justice movements of the last fifty years and today's most innovative labor organizing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Revised, Updated edition
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781608465200
• ISBN-10: 1608465209
• Artikelnr.: 42604782

Autorenporträt

Journalist and labor activist Vanessa Tait received her PhD 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. Cristina Tzintzún is the executive director of Workers Defense Project (WDP), a statewide, membership-based workers’ rights organization that is winning better working conditions for Texans. At WDP, Tzintzún has spearheaded efforts to ensure safe and dignified jobs for the nearly 900,000 construction workers that labor in the state. She also coedited Presente!: Latin@ Immigrant Voices in the Struggle for Racial Justice / Voces Inmigrantes Latin@s en la Lucha por la Justicia Racial.

Inhaltsangabe

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