Justice for Janitors: Scales of Organizing and Representing Workers

The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism: Cleaners in the Global Economy

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 214-234

  Savage, Lydia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottom up organizing, and workers' visibility; Decentralized workplaces, scattering of workers; Institutional change and LA's "Reformistas"; Institutional scales and worker activism; JFJ as a model, and future of US labor movement; Justice for Janitors (JfJ) campaign; Justice for janitors, organizing and representing workers; Organizing service sector workers, and challenges faced; Unions representing janitors, and SEIU; US labor movement, a geography of power

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886862188     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444397406.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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