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Book SynopsisWorkers and their organizations are facing enormous obstacles today. Corporations wield immense power, not only in the marketplace but also in politics, which has, for many years, effectively blocked the updating of antiquated laws governing labor relations. Instead, unions have been subjected to a steady onslaught of attacks at the state level...
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Section One: Building Organization
1. Understanding Worker Center Trajectories
2. Sizing Up Worker Center Income (2008–2014): A Study of Revenue Size, Stability, and Streams
3. Labor Unions/Worker Center Relationships, Joint Efforts, and Experiences
4. Union Organizing, Advocacy, and Services at the Nexus of Immigrant and Labor Rights
5. The National Black Worker Center Project: Grappling with the Power-Building Imperative
6. "Greedy" Institutions or Beloved Communities? Assessing the Job Satisfaction of Organizers
7. Innovative Union Strategies and the Struggle to Reinvent Collective Bargaining
8. The Strike as the Ultimate Structure Test: Rebuilding Working-Class Power Through Mass Participation Strikes
Section Two: Bargaining
9. Bargaining for the Common Good: An Emerging Tool for Rebuilding Worker Power
10. A Primer on 21st-Century Bargaining
Section Three: State and Local Policy
11. "$15 and a Union": Searching for Workers' Power in the Fight for $15 Movement
12. Governing the Market from Below: Setting Labor Standards at the State and Local Levels
13. Expanding Domestic Worker Rights in the 21st Century: Statewide Campaigns for Domestic Worker Bills of Rights
Section Four: Working Up the Chain
14. Worker-Driven Social Responsibility: A Replicable Model for the Protection of Human Rights in Global Supply Chains
15. Taming Globalization: Raising Labor Standards Across Supply Chains
16. Mobilizing High-Road Employers and Private SectorStrategies: National Domestic Workers Alliance
17. Union–Cooperative Alliances: Conditions for Realizing Their Transformational Potential
