{"product_id":"new-labor-in-new-york-precarious-workers-and-the-future-of-the-labor-movement-paperback-softback-9780801479373","title":"New Labor in New York; Precarious Workers and the Future of the Labor Movement (Paperback \/ softback) 9780801479373","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNew Labor in New York\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePrecarious Workers and the Future of the Labor Movement\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRuth Milkman (Edited by), Edward Ott (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780801479373\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 7 March 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages, 11 tables, 5 charts - 11 Tables, unspecified\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.5 x 2.1 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe volume is written for a broader audience, and so it does not belong only on the bookshelves of academics; it should be given to any labor, community, or immigrant rights activist. Not only describing success stories but also laying out many of the successful failures (p. 84) as well as challenges the organizations face, enhances our understanding of how to move forward.... The contributors to this volume offer a glimpse into what goes on berhind the scenes in the life of your street vendor, your super-market cashier, your domestic worker, your restaurant cook, or your Broadway artist.\u003c\/p\u003e - Maite Tapia (ILR Review) \u003cp\u003eWhile grounded in New York City, the book contains many important lessons for labour activists and academics beyond the five boroughs and makes a valuable contribution to the growing literature on organizing the precariat and especially to scholarship on worker centres and other models of community unionism.... Reading\u003ci\u003eNew Labor in New York\u003c\/i\u003eit became clear that from [the] cross-fertilization of resources and ideas, tactics and strategies, experiences and wisdom, that a powerful, transformative labour movement can grow.\u003c\/p\u003e - Simon Black (Labour\/Le Travail)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York City boasts a higher rate of unionization than any other major U.S. city—roughly double the national average—but the city's unions have suffered steady and relentless decline, especially in the private sector.\u003c\/b\u003e With higher levels of income inequality than any other large city in the nation, New York today is home to a large and growing precariat—workers with little or no employment security who are often excluded from the basic legal protections that unions struggled for and won in the twentieth century. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommunity-based organizations and worker centers have developed the most promising approach to organizing the new precariat and to addressing the crisis facing the labor movement. Home to some of the nation's very first worker centers, New York City today has the single largest concentration of these organizations in the United States, yet until now no one has documented their efforts. New Labor in New York includes thirteen fine-grained case studies of recent campaigns by worker centers and unions, each of which is based on original research and participant observation. Some of the campaigns documented here involve taxi drivers, street vendors, and domestic workers, as well as middle-strata freelancers—all of whom are excluded from basic employment laws. Other cases focus on supermarket, retail, and restaurant workers, who are nominally covered by such laws but who often experience wage theft and other legal violations; still other campaigns are not restricted to a single occupation or industry. This book offers a richly detailed portrait of the new labor movement in New York City, as well as several recent efforts to expand that movement from the local to the national scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Toward a New Labor Movement?: New York City's Precariat\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRuth Milkman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. IMMIGRANT UNION ORGANIZING AND UNION-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS\u003c\/b\u003e1. Taking Aim at Target: West Indian Immigrant Workers Confront the Difficulties of Big-Box Organizing\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBen Becker\u003c\/i\u003e2. Organizing Immigrant Supermarket Workers inBrooklyn: A Union-Community Partnership\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBen Shapiro\u003c\/i\u003e3. Faith, Community, and Labor: Challenges and Opportunities in the New York City Living Wage Campaign\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJeff Broxmeyer and Erin Michaels\u003c\/i\u003e4. UNITED New York: Fighting for a Fair Economy in \"The Year of the Protester\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLynne Turner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. ORGANIZING THE PRECARIAT, OLD AND NEW\u003c\/b\u003e5. Infusing Craft Identity into a Noncraft Industry: The Retail Action Project\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePeter Ikeler\u003c\/i\u003e6. Street Vendors in and against the Global City: VAMOS Unidos\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKathleen Dunn\u003c\/i\u003e7. Protecting and Representing Workers in the New Gig Economy: The Case of the Freelancers Union\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMartha King\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. IMMIGRANT STRUGGLES FOR JUSTICE IN AND BEYOND THE WORKPLACE\u003c\/b\u003e8. The High-Touch Model: Make the Road New York's Participatory Approach to Immigrant Organizing\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJane McAlevey\u003c\/i\u003e9. Bridging City Trenches: The New York Civic Participation Project\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSteve McFarland\u003c\/i\u003e10. Creating \"Open Space\" to Promote Social Justice: The MinKwon Center for Community Action\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSusan McQuade\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV. GOING NATIONAL: NEW YORK'S WORKER CENTERS EXPAND\u003c\/b\u003e11. An Appetite for Justice: The Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMarnie Brady\u003c\/i\u003e12. Not Waiting for Permission: The New York Taxi Workers Alliance and Twenty-First-Century Bargaining\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMischa Gaus\u003c\/i\u003e13. \"Prepare to Win\": Domestic Workers United's Strategic Transition following Passage of the New York Domestic Workers Bill of Rights\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHarmony Goldberg\u003c\/i\u003eAfterword: Lessons from the New Labor Movement for the Old\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEd Ott\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"ILR Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52542159290648,"sku":"9780801479373","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/new-labor-in-new-york-precarious-workers-and-the-future-of-the-labor-movement-paperback-softback-9780801479373","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}