New labor in New York : precarious workers and the future of the labor movement / edited by Ruth Milkman and Ed Ott.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Milkman, Ruth, 1954- editor.

Ott, Ed, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Precarious employment--New York (State)--New York.

Precarious employment.

Labor unions--Organizing--New York (State)--New York.

Labor unions.

Labor movement--New York (State)--New York.

Labor movement.

Labor unions--Organizing.

New York (State)--New York.

Physical Description:

ix, 352 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2014.

Summary:

New York City boasts a higher rate of unionization than any other major U.S. city, roughly double the national average, but 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 "precariat": workers 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.

Contents:

Introduction : toward a new labor movement : organizing New York City's precariat / Ruth Milkman

Taking aim at Target : West Indian immigrant workers confront the difficulties of big-box organizing / Ben Becker

Organizing immigrant supermarket workers in Brooklyn : a union-community partnership / Ben Shapiro

Faith, community and labor : challenges and opportunities in the New York City living wage campaign / Jeff Broxmeyer and Erin Michaels

UNITED New York : fighting for a fair economy in "the year of the protester" / Lynne Turner

Infusing craft identity into a non-craft industry : the retail action project / Peter Ikeler

Street vendors in and against the global city : VAMOS Unidos / Kathleen Dunn

Protecting and representing workers in the new gig economy : the case of the Freelancers Union / Martha King

The high-touch model : Make the Road New York's participatory approach to immigrant organizing / Jane McAlevey

Bridging city trenches : the New York Civic Participation Project / Steve McFarland

Creating open space to promote social justice : the MinKwon Center for Community Action / Susan McQuade

An appetite for justice : the Restaurant Opportunities center of New York / Marnie Brady

Not waiting for permission : the New York Taxi Workers Alliance and 21st century bargaining / Mischa Gaus

Prepare to win : Domestic Workers United's strategic transitions following the passage of the New York Domestic Workers Bill of Rights / Harmony Goldberg

Afterword : lessons from the new labor movement for the old / Ed Ott.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-340) and index.

ISBN:

9780801479373

9780801452833

080145283X

0801479371

OCLC:

855858291

Publisher Number:

99969501563