11 Building a Better Texas: Participatory Research Wins for Texas Workers

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. 1 Introduction 1
4. 2 The Epistemology and Hybridity of Participatory Action Research: What and Whose Truth Is It? 6
5. Part I Social Justice Organizing
6. 3 The Activist Class Cultures Project: Helping Activists Become More Class Inclusive 17
7. 4 Fighting Antihomeless Laws and the Criminalization of Poverty through Participatory Action Research 33
8. 5 Organizers and Academics Together: The Household Energy Security Crisis and Utility Justice Organizing 47
9. Part II Worker Rights Activism
10. 6 Shaping Organizing Strategy and Public Policy for an Invisible Workforce: Restaurant Opportunities Center 65
11. 7 Worker-Led Research Makes the Case for Labor Justice for Massachusetts Domestic Workers: Social Research and Social Change at the Grassroots 80
12. 8 Power Sharing through Participatory Action Research with a Latino Forest Worker Community 95
13. 9 Making Injustice Visible: National Day Laborer Organizing Network’s Research and Action 112
14. 10 Milking Research for Social Change: Immigrant Dairy Farmworkers in Upstate New York 126
15. 11 Building a Better Texas: Participatory Research Wins for Texas Workers 140
16. Part III Language, Literacy, and Heritage
17. 12 Mobilizing and Organizing Nimiipuu to Protect the Environment: Fighting to Protect Ancestral Lands in Idaho 157
18. 13 Building Future Language Leaders in a Participatory Action Research Model 171
19. 14 Conclusion: Linking Research to Social Action 186
20. Notes on Contributors 195
21. About the Foundation 199
22. Index 201