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

Milkman, Ruth; Bloom, Joshua; Narro, Victor, editors

ISBN 10: 0801448581 / ISBN 13: 9780801448584

Published by Cornell University Press, Ithaca; London, 2010

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KB40.xi, 296 pp. Notes, references, index. Octavo. Dark red cloth spine, beige cloth boards with circle blind stamp. Covers have minor shelf wear, bottom corner lightly bumped. Interior clean and tight. A nice copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 296 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Working for Justice. the L. A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy
• Publisher: Cornell University Press, Ithaca; London
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801448581
• ISBN 13: 9780801448584
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Socialism/Communism
  • Philosophy,Social Sciences
  • Economics/Financial

About this title

Synopsis

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 immigrants, making it especially fertile territory for low-wage worker organizing.

The case studies in Working for Justice are all based on original field research on organizing campaigns among L.A. day laborers, garment workers, car wash workers, security officers, janitors, taxi drivers, hotel workers as well as the efforts of ethnically focused worker centers and immigrant rights organizations. The authors interviewed key organizers, gained access to primary documents, and conducted participant observation. Working for Justice is a valuable resource for sociologists and other scholars in the interdisciplinary field of labor studies, as well as for advocates and policymakers.

About the Author

Ruth Milkman is Professor of Sociology at UCLA and the CUNY Graduate Center and Associate Director of the Murphy Labor Institute at CUNY. She is coeditor of Rebuilding Labor and editor of Organizing Immigrants, both from Cornell, and author of L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement. Joshua Bloom is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at UCLA and coauthor of the forthcoming Black against Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Black Panther Party. Victor Narro, J.D., is Project Director of the UCLA Downtown Labor Center.