Worker Centers - Organizing Communities At the Edge of the Dream

Klappentext These centers, which attract workers in industries that are difficult to organize, have emerged as especially useful components of any program intended to assist immigrants and low-wage workers of color. Worker centers serve not only as organizing laboratories but also as places where immigrants and other low-wage workers can participate in civil society, tell their stories to the larger community, resist racism and anti-immigrant sentiment, and work to improve their political and economic standing. Zusammenfassung Low-wage workers in the United States face obstacles including racial and ethnic discrimination, a pervasive lack of wage enforcement, misclassification of their employment, and for some, their status as undocumented immigrants. In the past, political...

Product details

• Authors: Janice Fine
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.01.2006
• EAN: 9780801444234
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-4423-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Economic Policy Institute
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries