Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream
"Worker Centers is an important book. Worker centers are a new organizing form emerging among low-wage workers, and Janice Fine provides us with a comprehensive and analytically astute study of this new type of organizing."—Frances Fox Piven, author of The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush's Militarism"Janice Fine offers a comprehensive account of an important phenomenon of the American labor movement, the contemporary incarnation of workers' centers. This is an extraordinarily useful book, combining rigorous analysis with textured accounts of cases and choices. By putting today's worker centers in historical context and by emphasizing the international component, Fine enriches our understanding of the interaction among race, class, gender, and immigrant status in the U.S. workforce. This book is essential reading for all of us concerned about the future of both the labor movement and of community organizing more broadly."—Margaret Levi, Jere L. Bacharach Professor of International Studies, University of Washington