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Ruth Milkman, Ruth Ott Milkman, Ruth Milkman, Ed Ott, Edward Ott

New Labor in New York - Precarious Workers and the Future of the Labor Movement

English · Hardback

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Description

Documents thirteen recent campaigns to address the precariat crisis facing New York City, highlighting labor movements that support workers excluded from or nominally covered by basic employment laws.

Summary

This volume comprises thirteen fine-grained case studies of recent campaigns by worker centers and unions to organize the new "precariat" class of workers and to address the crisis facing the labor movement, each of which is based on original research and participant observation.

Product details

Authors	Ruth Milkman, Ruth Ott Milkman
Assisted by	Ruth Milkman (Editor), Ed Ott (Editor), Edward Ott (Editor)
Publisher	Cornell University Press

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	07.03.2014

EAN	9780801452833
ISBN	978-0-8014-5283-3
No. of pages	368
Subjects	Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Labour, economic and industrial sociology

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