Working for Justice ─ The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy

The volume emerged from an intensive two-year collaboration between scholars of sociology at the University of California and activists working to advance the interests of low-wage workers there in Los Angeles. They describe such aspects as organizing workers along ethnic lines at the Pilipino Workers' Center, building power for noncitizen citizenship at the Multi-Ethnic Immigrant Workers Organizing Network, progressive lawyering and the Los Angeles car wash campaign, the Garment Worker Center and the Forever 21 campaign, black community leaders and SEIU's Los Angeles security unionization campaign, and the janitorial industry and the Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)