Unionizing the Ivory Tower : : Cornell Workers' Fifteen-Year Fight for Justice and a Living Wage / / Al Davidoff.
Unionizing the Ivory Tower chronicles how 1,000 low-paid custodians, cooks and gardeners succeeded in organizing a union at Cornell University. Al Davidoff, the Cornell student leader who became a custodian and the union's first president, tells the story with passion, sensitivity and wit.This...
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