Poor Workers’ Unions
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Rebuilding Labor from Below
(Completely Revised and Updated Edition)
Vanessa Tait
Foreword by Bill Fletcher
New Afterword by Cristina Tzintzún
A classic account of low-wage workers’ organization that the US Department of Labor calls one of the ‘100 books that has shaped work in America.’
As low-wage organizing campaigns have been reignited by the Fight for 15 movement and other workplace struggles, Poor Workers’ Unions is as prescient as ever.
A classic account of low-wage workers’ organization that the US Department of Labor calls one of the ‘100 books that has shaped work in America.’
As low-wage organizing campaigns have been reignited by the Fight for 15 movement and other workplace struggles, Poor Workers’ Unions is as prescient as ever.
About the Author
Journalist and labor activist Vanessa Tait received her PhD in sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her writings have appeared in New Labor Forum, Critical Sociology, the Boston Phoenix and the Guardian.
Cristina Tzintzún is the executive director of Workers Defense Project (WDP), a statewide, membership-based workers’ rights organization that is winning better working conditions for Texans. At WDP, Tzintzún has spearheaded efforts to ensure safe and dignified jobs for the nearly 900,000 construction workers that labor in the state. She also coedited Presente!: Latin@ Immigrant Voices in the Struggle for Racial Justice / Voces Inmigrantes Latin@s en la Lucha por la Justicia Racial.
