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Community Unions and the Revival of the American Labor Movement

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  • Janice Fine

    (Economic Policy Institute, Center for Community Change, jfine@neaction.org)

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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.

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  • Janice Fine, 2005. "Community Unions and the Revival of the American Labor Movement," Politics & Society, , vol. 33(1), pages 153-199, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:polsoc:v:33:y:2005:i:1:p:153-199
    DOI: 10.1177/0032329204272553
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    Cited by:

    1. Ian Thomas MacDonald, 2014. "Towards Neoliberal Trade Unionism: Decline, Renewal and Transformation in North American Labour Movements," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 52(4), pages 725-752, December.
    2. Fox, Jonathan A, 2005. "Mapping Mexican Migrant Civil Society," Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, Working Paper Series qt9wn0j4fk, Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, UC Santa Cruz.
    3. Jane Wills, 2008. "Making Class Politics Possible: Organizing Contract Cleaners in London," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 32(2), pages 305-323, June.

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