Community Unions and the Revival of the American Labor Movement

Janice Fine
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Janice Fine: Economic Policy Institute, Center for Community Change, jfine@neaction.org

Politics & Society, 2005, vol. 33, issue 1, 153-199

Abstract: Today’s low-wage workforce is mostly ignored by the national political parties and largely untouched by organized labor. Over the last twenty years, “community unions†have emerged to try to fill the void. They are modest-sized community-based organizations of low-wage workers that, through a combination of service, advocacy, and organizing, focus on issues of work and wages. Community unions have so far had greater success at raising wages and improving working conditions via public policy rather than direct labor market intervention. This is because low-wage workers in America today have greater political than economic power.

Keywords: community unions; immigrant worker centers; living wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1177/0032329204272553

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