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Author Tait, Vanessa.

Title Poor workers' unions : rebuilding labor from below / Vanessa Tait.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : South End Press, [2005]
©2005

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 Moore Stacks  HD6490.O72 U685 2005    Available  ---
Description xi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Unionizing the movements : economic initiatives in the civil rights, new left, and women's movements -- The fight within : trade unions respond to the movements -- Building economic justice for all: a national network for no-wage and low-wage workers -- Community organizing goes to work : ACORNs united labor unions -- "Organizing where we live and work": the independent workers' center movement -- Knocking at labor's door : organizing workfare unions in the '90s -- Reviving an activist culture : the AFL-CIOs turn toward organizing -- Conclusion : imagining a new movement -- Archival sources and interviews.
Subject Labor unions -- Organizing -- United States.
Labor unions -- Organizing.
United States.
Labor union members -- United States.
Labor union members.
Working class -- United States.
Working class.
ISBN 089608714X paper cover alkaline paper
0896087158 cloth cover alkaline paper