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A Renegade Union

Interracial Organizing and Labor Radicalism
  • ISBN-13: 9780252037320
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Lisa Phillips
  • Price: AUD $113.00
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  • Local release date: 13/02/2013
  • Format: Hardback 256 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]
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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.
''A Renegade Union deepens our understanding of how left-led unions in the mid-twentieth century distinguished themselves from other unions, and helps us see the possibilities for social movement unionism. Lisa Phillips's well-told story of District 65 will be welcomed by labor historians, civil rights scholars, labor activists, and interested general readers.'' Rosemary Feurer, author of Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950
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