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11%OFFJanice Fine - Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream - 9780801472572 - V9780801472572
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Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream

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Description for Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream Paperback. Series: An Economic Policy Institute Book. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 514.

Low-wage workers in the United States face obstacles including racial and ethnic discrimination, a pervasive lack of wage enforcement, misclassification of their employment, and for some, their status as undocumented immigrants. In the past, political parties, unions, and fraternal and mutual-aid societies served as important vehicles for workers who hoped to achieve political and economic integration. As these traditional civic institutions have weakened, low-wage workers must seek new structures for mutual support. 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 ... Read more

In this pathbreaking book, Janice Fine identifies 137 worker centers in more than eighty cities, suburbs, and rural areas in thirty-one states. These centers, which attract workers in industries that are difficult to organize, have emerged as especially useful components of any program intended to assist immigrants and low-wage workers of color. 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.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Series
An Economic Policy Institute Book
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780801472572
SKU
V9780801472572
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99-1

About Janice Fine
Janice Fine is Assistant Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations in the School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Reviews for Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream
"Worker Centers is an important book. 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 ... Read more

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