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Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds examines a diverse array of innovative strategies for revitalizing the labor movement by forming alliances outside the workplace with a variety of community groups, social movements, and faith-based organizations, particularly those that address civil rights, imm...

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Otros Autores: Cornfield, Daniel B., Turner, Lowell
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Grossstadt
Gewerkschaft
Labor unions.
Labor movement.
Community development, Urban.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Developpement communautaire urbain > États-Unis.
Mouvement ouvrier > États-Unis.
Community development, Urban > United States.
Labor unions > United States.
Labor movement > United States.
USA
Grossbritannien
Deutschland
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Peter Evans
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of acronyms and abbreviations
  • Introduction : an urban resurgence of social unionism / Lowell Turner
  • pt. 1. Urban issues and campaigns
  • 1. The U.S. living wage movement : building coalitions from the local level in a global economy / Stephanie Luce
  • 2. Unions and the strategic context of local governance : a comparative overview / Jefferey M. Sellers
  • 3. Organizing for equitable economic development : the significance of community empowerment organizations for unions / Ron Applegate
  • 4. Building coalitions for regional power : labor's emerging urban strategy / David Reynolds
  • pt. 2. Union towns
  • 5. The politics of labor in Boston : geographies of union renewal / Heiwon Kwon and Benjamin Day
  • 6. Two paths to the high road : the dynamics of coalition building in Seattle and Buffalo / Ian Greer, Barbara Byrd, and Lou Jean Fleron
  • 7. Political insiders and social activists : coalition building in New York and Los Angeles / Marco Hauptmeier and Lowell Turner.
  • pt. 3. Frontier cities
  • 8. Strategies for labor revitalization : the case of Miami / Bruce Nissen and Monica Russo
  • 9. Immigrants and labor in a globalizing city : prospects for coalition building in Nashville / Daniel B. Cornfield and William Canak
  • 10. Building an inclusive city : labor-community coalitions and the struggle for urban power in San Jose / Nari Rhee and Julie A. Sadler
  • pt. 4. International comparisons
  • 11. Special interests and public goods : organized labor's coalition politics in Hamburg and Seattle / Ian Greer
  • 12. Organizing labor in London : lessons from the campaign for a living wage / Jane Holgate and Jane Wills
  • 13. Restructuring without unions : the polycentric region of Greater Frankfurt / Otto Jacobi
  • Conclusion : seeking solidarity-- why, and with whom? / Daniel B. Cornfield
  • References
  • List of contributors
  • Index.

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