Poor workers' unions : rebuilding labor from below /
Tait, Vanessa.
Cambridge, Mass. : South end Press,
c2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Unionizing the movements : economic initiatives in the civil rights, new left, and women's movements -- The fight within : trade unions respond to the movements -- Building economic justice for all: a national network for no-wage and low-wage workers -- Community organizing goes to work : ACORNs united labor unions -- "Organizing where we live and work": the independent workers' center movement -- Knocking at labor's door : organizing workfare unions in the '90s -- Reviving an activist culture : the AFL-CIOs turn toward organizing -- Conclusion : imagining a new movement -- Archival sources and interviews.
Labor unions
Labor union members
Working class