Title: A renegade union
Description: Dedicated to organizing workers from diverse racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, many of whom were considered "unorganizable" by other unions, the progressive New York City-based labour union District 65 counted among its 30,000 members retail clerks, office workers, warehouse workers, and wholesale workers. Lisa Phillips presents a distinctive study of District 65 and its efforts to secure economic equality for minority workers in sales and processing jobs in small, low-end shops and warehouses throughout the city. Phillips shows how organizers fought tirelessly to achieve better hours and higher wages for "unskilled," unrepresented workers and to re-value their work, the result of an economy inclining toward fewer manufacturing jobs and more low wage service and processing jobs.
Subjects: African Americans, Labor unions, Discrimination in employment, African American labor union members, History, Employment, Minorities, Labor unions, united states, African americans, employment, Minorities, employment, united states, Discrimination in employment, united states, African americans, new york (state), new york
Places: New York (State), New York
Time periods: 20th century