TY  - BOOK
AU  - Milkman,Ruth
AU  - Ott,Edward
TI  - New Labor in New York: Precarious Workers and the Future of the Labor Movement
SN  - 9780801470752
AV  - HD5858 
U1  - 331.88097471 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Precarious employment -- New York (State) -- New York
KW  - Labor unions -- Organizing -- New York (State) -- New York
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - New Labor in New York -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Toward a New Labor Movement? Organizing New York City's Precariat -- Part I. IMMIGRANT UNION ORGANIZING AND UNION- COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS -- 1. Taking Aim at Target: West Indian Immigrant Workers Confront the Difficulties of Big-Box Organizing -- 2. Organizing Immigrant Supermarket Workers in Brooklyn: A Union- Community Partnership -- 3. Faith, Community, and Labor: Challenges and Opportunities in the New York City Living Wage Campaign -- 4. United New York: Fighting for a Fair Economy in "The Year of the Protester" -- Part II. ORGANIZING THE PRECARIAT, OLD AND NEW -- 5. Infusing Craft Identity into a Noncraft Industry: The Retail Action Project -- 6. Street Vendors in and against the Global City: VAMOS Unidos -- 7. Protecting and Representing Workers in the New Gig Economy: The Case of the Freelancers Union -- Part III. IMMIGRANT STRUGGLES FOR JUSTICE IN AND BEYOND THE WORKPLACE -- 8. The High-Touch Model: Make the Road New York's Participatory Approach to Immigrant Organizing -- 9. Bridging City Trenches: The New York Civic Participation Project -- 10. Creating "Open Space" to Promote Social Justice: The MinKwon Center for Community Action -- Part IV. GOING NATIONAL: NEW YORK'S WORKER CENTERS EXPAND -- 11. An Appetite for Justice: The Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York -- 12. Not Waiting for Permission: The New York Taxi Workers Alliance and Twenty- First-Century Bargaining -- 13. "Prepare to Win": Domestic Workers United's Strategic Transition following Passage of the New York Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights -- Afterword: Lessons from the New Labor Movement for the Old -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index
N2  - This volume comprises thirteen fine-grained case studies of recent campaigns by worker centers and unions to organize the new "precariat" class of workers and to address the crisis facing the labor movement, each of which is based on original research and participant observation
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