Quigley, Fran.

If We Can Win Here : The New Front Lines of the Labor Movement. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (222 pages)

If We Can Win Here -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Why Can't I Do That as a Housekeeper?" -- 1. A Campus Union -- 2. "We Can Win Here" -- 3. Dreaming of One Good Job -- 4. Alt-Labor Hits Indianapolis -- 5. The Fight for 15 -- 6. Legal Problems -- 7. UNITE HERE -- 8. Struggling for Contracts -- 9. Wonderful Field, Awful Pay -- 10. Trying to Secure a Union -- 11. Prayers for Citizenship -- 12. Advocacy for Citizenship -- 13. Contracts on Campus -- 14. Turned Away at the Hotels -- 15. Back to the Hyatt -- 16. "Bring Lisa Back!" -- 17. "That Is What the Union Does for Me" -- Notes -- Index.

In If We Can Win Here, Fran Quigley tells the stories of janitors, fry cooks, and health care aides trying to fight their way to middle-class incomes in Indianapolis. He also chronicles the struggles of the union organizers with whom the workers have made common cause.

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Labor movement -- Indiana -- Indianapolis.
Labor unions -- Organizing -- Indiana -- Indianapolis.
Service industries workers -- Labor unions -- Organizing -- Indiana -- Indianapolis.
Working poor -- Indiana -- Indianapolis.


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