{"product_id":"new-labor-in-new-york-9780801479373","title":"New Labor in New York","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew York City boasts a higher rate of unionization than any other major U.S. cityroughly double the national averagebut the city's unions have suffered steady and relentless decline, especially in the private sector. With higher levels of income inequality than any other large city in the nation, New York today is home to a large and growing precariatworkers 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 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\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 *\u003cbr\u003e\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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405159833943,"sku":"9780801479373","price":24.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801479373.jpg?v=1730488929","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/new-labor-in-new-york-9780801479373","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}