The fight for fifteen : the right wage for a working America / David Rolf ; assisted by Corrie Watterson Bryant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rolf, David, 1969- author.

Bryant, Corrie Watterson, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minimum wage--United States.

Minimum wage.

United States.

Working class--United States.

Working class.

Labor--United States.

Labor.

Labor unions--United States.

Labor unions.

Labor laws and legislation--United States.

Labor laws and legislation.

Physical Description:

xx, 328 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Fight for $15

Place of Publication:

New York : The New Press, [2016]

Summary:

"The fight for a higher minimum wage has become the biggest national labor story in decades. Beginning in November 2012, strikes by fast food workers spread across the country, landing in Seattle in May 2013. Within a year, Seattle had adopted a $15 minimum wage-- the highest in the United States-- without a bloody political battle. Combining history, economics, and commonsense political wisdom, The Fight for Fifteen makes a deeply informed case for a national $15/hour minimum wage as the only practical solution to reversing America's decades-long slide toward becoming a low-wage nation. Drawing both on new scholarship and on his extensive practical experiences organizing workers and grappling with inequality across the United States, David Rolf, president of SEIU 775-- which waged the successful Seattle campaign-- offers an accessible explanation of 'middle out' economics, an emerging popular economic theory that suggests that the origins of prosperity in capitalist economies lie with workers and consumers, not investors and employers. A blueprint for a different and hopeful American future, The Fight for Fifteen offers concrete tools, ideas, and inspiration for anyone interested in real change in our lifetimes"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

America at 200 : the American Dream versus the War on the Middle Class

The new work : fissured, flexible, insecure

It doesn't have to be this way : resistance, unrest, and innovation

The little city that could : winning a $15 wage in SeaTac

Fifteen for Seattle

An American wage for a stranger America : the case for $15

But the sky won't fall?

Toward a different future : $15 and beyond

Something's happening.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-305) and index.

ISBN:

9781620971130

1620971135

OCLC:

907190711