Labor rising : the past and future of working people in America / edited by Daniel Katz and Richard A. Greenwald.
"When Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker threatened the collective bargaining rights of the state's public-sector employees in early 2011, the huge protests that erupted in response put the labor movement back on the nation's front pages. It was a fleeting reminder of a not-so-distant past when the "la...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
New Press : Distributed by Perseus Dist.,
2012.
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 318 pages ; 21 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Community and coalitions. Building a new working-class politics from below / Shelton Stromquist
- Learning from the right: a new operation Dixie? / Bethany Moreton and Pamela Voekel
- Reimagining a multicultural labor movement through education / Daniel Katz
- What labor looks like: from Wisconsin to Cairo, youth hold a mirror to history of workers' struggles / Michelle Chen
- Bringing the organizing tradition home: campus-labor-community partnerships for regional power / Nancy Maclean
- Place matters. Placing labor / Andrew Herod
- Home as work / Eileen Boris
- Contingent, transient, and at risk: modern workers in a gig economy / Richard A. Greenwald
- State and policy. Postmortem: yellow dogs and company-dominated elections / David Brody
- Solidarity, citizenship, and the opportunities of disasters / Jacob A.C. Remes
- The hour when the ship comes in / Leon Fink
- Getting over the New Deal / Jefferson Cowie
- Your American dream, my American nightmare / Kimberley L. Phillips
- Pt. 1. Community and coalitions
- pt. 2. Place matters
- pt. 3. State and policy
- pt. 4. Political economy
- pt. 5. Beyond borders.