If We Can Win Here: The New Front Lines of the Labor Movement Contributor(s): Quigley, Fran (Author) |
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ISBN: 080145655X ISBN-13: 9780801456558 Publisher: ILR Press
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: May 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - History | United States - State & Local - Midwest(ia,il,in,ks,mi,mn,mo,nd,ne,oh,sd,wi - Law | Labor & Employment |
Dewey: 331.881 |
LCCN: 2014042069 |
Age Level: 18-UP |
Grade Level: 13-UP |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.1" W x 9" L (0.70 lbs) 224 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Midwest |
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index |
Review Citations: Choice 11/01/2015 |
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Publisher Description: Do service-sector workers represent the future of the U.S. labor movement? Mid-twentieth-century union activism transformed manufacturing jobs from backbreaking, low-wage work into careers that allowed workers to buy homes and send their kids to college. Some union activists insist that there is no reason why service-sector workers cannot follow that same path. In If We Can Win Here, Fran Quigley tells the stories of janitors, fry cooks, and health care aides trying to fight their way to middle-class incomes in Indianapolis. He also chronicles the struggles of the union organizers with whom the workers have made common cause. The service-sector workers of Indianapolis mirror the city's demographics: they are white, African American, and Latino. In contrast, the union organizers are mostly white and younger than the workers they help rally. Quigley chronicles these allies' setbacks, victories, bonds, and conflicts while placing their journey in the broader context of the global economy and labor history. As one Indiana-based organizer says of the struggle being waged in a state that has earned a reputation as antiunion: If we can win here, we can win anywhere. The outcome of the battle of Indianapolis may foretell the fate of workers across the United States. |
Contributor Bio(s): Quigley, Fran: - Fran Quigley is Clinical Professor and Director of the Health and Human Rights Clinic at Indiana University McKinney School of Law. He is the author of If We Can Win Here, also from Cornell, How Human Rights Can Build Haiti, and Walking Together, Walking Far. He is the cofounder of People of Faith for Access to Medicines, pfamrx.org. |
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