Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (677 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801472571 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Janice Fine is Senior Fellow for Policy and Organizing, Center for Community Change and Research Associate, Economic Policy Institute. . In July 2005, she will join the faculty of the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University as an Assistant Professor
Shedding light on a subject mainly left in the dark paul Fine provides an analysis and description of solidarity efforts among those on the margins. Well written, extensively researched, and thoroughly presented. Highly recommended.. good overview to someone not sure what a workers center is Book Review: "Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream"By Janice FineReview by James GenericEdited by Yoni Kroll and Chris MullenToday, unions in the US are in a weak state. More than 90% of all working people are not in unions. Does this mean that unions have become obsolete? No! The power of a worker in a union is much higher than someone without a union in terms of job security, wages, benefits, and the ability to solve grievances like harassment or discrimination. However, there have been many changes in American labor of late, such as anti-union laws, aggressive international anti-labor companies like W
Worker centers serve not only as organizing laboratories but also as places where immigrants and other low-wage workers can participate in civil society, tell their stories to the larger community, resist racism and anti-immigrant sentiment, and work to improve their political and economic standing.. Worker centers are among the institutions to which workers turn as they strive to build vibrant communities and attain economic and political visibility. Community-based worker centers help low-wage workers gain access to social services; advocate for their own civil and human rights; and organize to improve wages, working conditions, neighborhoods, and public schools.In this pathbreaking book, Janice Fine identifies 137 worker centers in more than eighty cities, suburbs, and rural areas in
This book is essential reading for all of us concerned about the future of both the labor movement and of community organizing more broadly."Margaret Levi, Jere L. Worker centers are a new organizing form emerging among low-wage workers, and Janice Fine provides us with a comprehensive and analytically astute study of this new type of organizing."Frances Fox Piven, author of The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush's Militarism"Janice Fine offers a comprehensive account of an important phenomenon of the American labor movem