Negotiating justice and possibility: alternative labor organizing in New York

Thesis

Amid broad consensus about the urgency of transforming and revitalizing the US labor movement, alternative labor organizations such as worker centers have emerged as community-based, experimental organizations aiming to address some of the perceived gaps and failures of the mainstream movement. The structures and ideological orientation of worker centers challenge the labor movement’s decades-long entrenchment of top-down bureaucracy and its historical exclusion of people of color, women, ...

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Authors: West, Z

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-bmayxko4j
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Keywords: labor