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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Quigley, Fran, 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Working poor.
Labor unions > Organizing.
Labor movement.
LAW > Labor & Employment.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Travailleurs pauvres > États-Unis.
Services (Industrie) > Personnel > Syndicalisation > États-Unis.
Syndicalisation > États-Unis.
Mouvement ouvrier > États-Unis.
Working poor > United States.
Service industries workers > Labor unions > Organizing > United States.
Labor unions > Organizing > United States.
Labor movement > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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