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

New Labor in New York : : Precarious Workers and the Future of the Labor Movement / / ed. by Ruth Milkman, Edward Ott.

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New York City boasts a higher rate of unionization than any other major U.S. city-roughly double the national average-but the city's unions have suffered steady and relentless decline, especially in the private sector. With higher levels of income inequality than any other large city in the nat...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Becker, Benjamin,
Brady, Marnie,
Broxmeyer, Jeffrey D.,
Dunn, Kathleen,
Goldberg, Harmony,
Ikeler, Peter,
King, Martha W.,
McAlevey, Jane,
McFarland, Stephen,
McQuade, Susan,
Michaels, Erin,
Milkman, Ruth,
Ott, Ed,
Shapiro, Ben,
Turner, Lynne,
HerausgeberIn:
Milkman, Ruth,
Ott, Edward,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 11 tables, 5 charts
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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

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