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Ruth Milkman (Ed.) - Working for Justice: The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy - 9780801448584 - V9780801448584
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Working for Justice: The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy

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Description for Working for Justice: The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy Hardback. Editor(s): Milkman, Ruth; Bloom, Joshua; Narro, Victor. Num Pages: 312 pages, 8. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; KNXB2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 571.

Working for Justice, which includes eleven case studies of recent low-wage worker organizing campaigns in Los Angeles, makes the case for a distinctive "L.A. Model" of union and worker center organizing. Networks linking advocates in worker centers and labor unions facilitate mutual learning and synergy and have generated a shared repertoire of economic justice strategies. The organized labor movement in Los Angeles has weathered the effects of deindustrialization and deregulation better than unions in other parts of the United States, and this has helped to anchor the city's wider low-wage worker movement. Los Angeles is also home to the nation's ... Read more

The case studies in Working for Justice are all based on original field research on organizing campaigns among L.A. day laborers, garment workers, car wash workers, security officers, janitors, taxi drivers, hotel workers as well as the efforts of ethnically focused worker centers and immigrant rights organizations. The authors interviewed key organizers, gained access to primary documents, and conducted participant observation. Working for Justice is a valuable resource for sociologists and other scholars in the interdisciplinary field of labor studies, as well as for advocates and policymakers.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780801448584
SKU
V9780801448584
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
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99-1

About Ruth Milkman (Ed.)
Ruth Milkman is Professor of Sociology at UCLA and the CUNY Graduate Center and Associate Director of the Murphy Labor Institute at CUNY. She is coeditor of Rebuilding Labor and editor of Organizing Immigrants, both from Cornell, and author of L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement. Joshua Bloom is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology ... Read more

Reviews for Working for Justice: The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy
Working for Justice serves both to refine and expand our knowledge of employee representation in Los Angeles through a collection of chapters related to union- and worker center-led efforts' on behalf of low-wage earning individuals. It offers a nuanced study of specific instances in which unions and advocacy groups have sought to organize low-wage workers.... The collection also takes us ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Working for Justice: The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy


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