Vanessa Tait

Poor Workers' Unions (eBook, ePUB)

Rebuilding Labor from Below (Completely Revised and Updated Edition)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781608465217
• Artikelnr.: 44832859

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.

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