Worker centers : organizing communities at the edge of the dream / Janice Fine.
Publication details: Ithaca : ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 2006.Description: xii, 316 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0801444233 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0801472571 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780801444234
- 9780801472572
- 331.6/2/06073 22
- HD8081.A5 F56 2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-301) and index.
Origins and characteristics of worker centers -- Putting worker centers in context -- Organizing at the intersection of ethnicity, race, and class -- Delivering services on the frontlines -- Economic action organizing -- Relationships with unions -- Public policy enforcement and reform -- Immigrant rights and social justice -- The internal life of worker centers -- Networking, structures, and practices -- A holistic assessment of the worker center phenomenon.