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New Labor in New York : Precarious Workers and the Future of the Labor Movement.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (366 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801470752
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: New Labor in New YorkDDC classification:
  • 331.88097471
LOC classification:
  • HD5858
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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