If we can win here : the new front lines of the labor movement /

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Do service-sector workers represent the future of the U.S. labor movement? Mid-twentieth-century union activism transformed manufacturing jobs from backbreaking, low-wage work into careers that allowed workers to buy homes and send their kids to college. Some union activists insist that there is no...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Quigley, Fran, 1962- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca ; London : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2015.
Temas:
Labor movement > United States.
Labor unions > Organizing > United States.
Service industries workers > Labor unions > Organizing > United States.
Working poor > United States.
Mouvement ouvrier > États-Unis.
Syndicalisation > États-Unis.
Services (Industrie) > Personnel > Syndicalisation > États-Unis.
Travailleurs pauvres > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
LAW > Labor & Employment.
Labor movement
Labor unions > Organizing
Working poor
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : why can't I do that as a housekeeper?
  • A campus union
  • We can win here
  • Dreaming of one good job
  • Alt-labor hits Indianapolis
  • The Fight for 15
  • Legal problems
  • UNITE HERE
  • Struggling for contracts
  • Wonderful field, awful pay
  • Trying to secure a union
  • Prayers for citizenship
  • Advocacy for citizenship
  • Contracts on campus
  • Turned away at the hotels
  • Back to the Hyatt
  • Bring Lisa back!
  • That is what the union does for me.

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