Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Toward a New Labor Movement? Organizing New York City’s Precariat 1
5. Part I IMMIGRANT UNION ORGANIZING AND UNION- COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
6. 1. Taking Aim at Target: West Indian Immigrant Workers Confront the Difficulties of Big-Box Organizing 25
7. 2. Organizing Immigrant Supermarket Workers in Brooklyn: A Union-Community Partnership 49
8. 3. Faith, Community, and Labor: Challenges and Opportunities in the New York City Living Wage Campaign 70
9. 4. United New York: Fighting for a Fair Economy in “The Year of the Protester” 88
10. Part II ORGANIZING THE PRECARIAT, OLD AND NEW
11. 5. Infusing Craft Identity into a Noncraft Industry: The Retail Action Project 113
12. 6. Street Vendors in and against the Global City: VAMOS Unidos 134
13. 7. Protecting and Representing Workers in the New Gig Economy: The Case of the Freelancers Union 150
14. Part III IMMIGRANT STRUGGLES FOR JUSTICE IN AND BEYOND THE WORKPLACE
15. 8. The High- Touch Model: Make the Road New York’s Participatory Approach to Immigrant Organizing 173
16. 9. Bridging City Trenches: The New York Civic Participation Project 187
17. 10. Creating “Open Space” to Promote Social Justice: The MinKwon Center for Community Action 208
18. Part IV GOING NATIONAL: NEW YORK’S WORKER CENTERS EXPAND
19. 11. An Appetite for Justice: The Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York 229
20. 12. Not Waiting for Permission: The New York Taxi Workers Alliance and Twenty- First- Century Bargaining 246
21. 13. “Prepare to Win”: Domestic Workers United’s Strategic Transition following Passage of the New York Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights 266
22. Afterword: Lessons from the New Labor Movement for the Old 289
23. Notes 295
24. Bibliography 319
25. About the Contributors 341
26. Index 345