Working for Justice The L. A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy

Name: Working for Justice The L. A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy
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ISBN: 9780801475801

ISBN-10: 0801475805

ISBN-13: 9780801475801

Edition: 2010

Authors: Ruth Milkman, Joshua Bloom, Victor Narro

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Working for Justice, which includes eleven case studies of recent low-wage worker organizing campaigns in Los Angeles, makes the case for a distinctive "L.A. Model" of union and worker center organizing. Networks linking advocates in worker centers and labor unions facilitate mutual learning and synergy and have generated a shared repertoire of economic justice strategies. The organized labor movement in Los Angeles has weathered the effects of deindustrialization and deregulation better than unions in other parts of the United States, and this has helped to anchor the city's wider low-wage worker movement. Los Angeles is also home to the nation's highest concentration of undocumented…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 3/2/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Worker Centers, Ethnic Communities, and Immigrant Rights Advocacy



The Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance: Spatializing Justice in an Ethnic "Enclave"




Organizing Workers along Ethnic Lines: The Pilipino Workers' Center




Alliance-Building and Organizing for Immigrant Rights: The Case of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles




Building Power for "Noncitizen Citizenship": A Case Study of the Multi-Ethnic Immigrant Workers Organizing Network




Occupational and Industry-Focused Organizing Campaigns



The Los Angeles Taxi Workers Alliance




From Legal Advocacy to Organizing: Progressive Lawyering and the Los Angeles Car Wash Campaign




NDLON and the History of Day Labor Organizing in Los Angeles




The Garment Worker Center and the "Forever 21" Campaign




Unions and Low-Wage Worker Organizing



Ally to Win: Black Community Leaders and SEIU's L. A. Security Unionization Campaign




From the Shop to the Streets: UNITE HERE Organizing in Los Angeles Hotels




The Janitorial Industry and the Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund



Afterword



Notes


References


Contributors


Index