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Author Quigley, Fran, 1962- author.

Title If we can win here : the new front lines of the labor movement / Fran Quigley.

Publication Info. Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2015.

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 Moore Stacks  HD8072.5 .Q46 2015    Available  ---
Description x, 209 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193 to 204) and index.
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.
Subject Labor movement -- United States.
Labor movement.
United States.
Labor unions -- Organizing -- United States.
Labor unions -- Organizing.
Service industries workers -- Labor unions -- United States -- Organizing.
Service industries workers -- Labor unions.
Working poor -- United States.
Working poor.
ISBN 0801453674 (cloth) (alkaline paper)
080145655X (paperback) (alkaline paper)
9780801453670 (cloth) (alkaline paper)
9780801456558 (paperback) (alkaline paper)