A Renegade Union : Interracial Organizing and Labor Radicalism /
Dedicated to organizing workers from diverse racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, many of whom were considered "unorganizable" by other unions, the progressive New York City-based labor union District 65 counted among its 30,000 members retail clerks, office workers, warehouse worker...
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2013]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Community-based, "catch-all" organizing on New York's Lower East Side
- Getting beyond racial, ethnic, religious, and skill-based divisions
- "Like a scab over an infected sore" : full and fair employment during and after World War II
- Attacked from the left and the right : community-organizing, civic unionism during the early years of the Cold War
- A third Labor Federation? : The Distributive, Processing, and Office Workers of America (DPO)
- Community organizing under the AFL-CIO umbrella.