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Poor Workers' Unions: Rebuilding Labor from Below
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Poor Workers' Unions: Rebuilding Labor from Below Hardcover - 2005

by Vanessa Tait


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Poor People's Unions explores the ongoing shift in labor activism from the shop floor to the community. Focusing on the activism of minorities, immigrants, women, and the otherwise disenfranchised workers who have long been pushed to the sidelines in labor unions, Tait advances the idea that workers are not only the employed and largely skilled laborers previously organized in unions, but also the unemployed, those in low-wage work, and those who have been forced to work for less than minimum wage through the workfare programs in every state. An insider to labor organizing and participant in the infamous Pacifica Radio labor battles, Tait argues that labor organizing doesn't have to stay stuck in the dead-end legalistic and bureaucratic methods traditional unions have commonly relied on. Workers can, she proclaims, build the labor movement from below, utilizing inclusive social movement principles. around a broad range of issues, many of which are community-based, such as progressive welfare and wage policies, equal employment, and affirmative action, job creation, health and housing, and even global economic justice.

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  • Title Poor Workers' Unions: Rebuilding Labor from Below
  • Author Vanessa Tait
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 258
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher South End Press
  • Date January 30, 2005
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780896087156 / 0896087158
  • Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.64 x 5.7 x 0.88 in (21.95 x 14.48 x 2.24 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Labor unions - Organizing - United States, Working class - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005000791
  • Dewey Decimal Code 331.891

About the author

Vanessa Tait is a journalist and labor activist in Berkeley, California. Her radio work has appeared on Free Speech Radio News, Workers Independent News Service, Pacifica Network News, and Bay Area Pacifica station KPFA. She has also written for a variety of print media, including New Labor Forum, Critical Sociology, the Boston Phoenix and the Guardian Newsweekly. Tait is also a trained librarian, who has specialized in collections of South East Asian writers. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and works as a writer and editor for University Professional and Technical Employees, CWA Local 9119.
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