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Tait, Vanessa

 
9780896087149: Poor Workers' Unions: Rebuilding Labor From Below
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 089608714X ISBN 13 : 9780896087149
Editeur : South End Press, 2005

Synopsis

Poor People's Unions explores the ongoing shift in labor activism from the shop floor to the community. Focusing on the activism of minorities, immigrants, women, and the otherwise disenfranchised workers who have long been pushed to the sidelines in labor unions, Tait advances the idea that workers are not only the employed and largely skilled laborers previously organized in unions, but also the unemployed, those in low-wage work, and those who have been forced to work for less than minimum wage through the workfare programs in every state. An insider to labor organizing and participant in the infamous Pacifica Radio labor battles, Tait argues that labor organizing doesn't have to stay stuck in the dead-end legalistic and bureaucratic methods traditional unions have commonly relied on. Workers can, she proclaims, build the labor movement from below, utilizing inclusive social movement principles. around a broad range of issues, many of which are community-based, such as progressive welfare and wage policies, equal employment, and affirmative action, job creation, health and housing, and even global economic justice.

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À propos de l'auteur

Vanessa Tait is a journalist and labor activist in Berkeley, California. Her radio work has appeared on Free Speech Radio News, Workers Independent News Service, Pacifica Network News, and Bay Area Pacifica station KPFA. She has also written for a variety of print media, including New Labor Forum, Critical Sociology, the Boston Phoenix and the Guardian Newsweekly. Tait is also a trained librarian, who has specialized in collections of South East Asian writers. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and works as a writer and editor for University Professional and Technical Employees, CWA Local 9119.

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Éditeur
South End Press
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
089608714X
ISBN 13 
9780896087149
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
300
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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