Labor unions remain the largest membership-based organizations in
major North American cities, even after years of decline. Labor
continues to play a vital role in mobilizing urban residents,
shaping urban conflict, and crafting the policies and regulations
that are transforming our urban spaces. As unions become more
involved in the daily life of the city, they find themselves
confronting the familiar dilemma of how to fold union priorities
into broader campaigns that address nonunion workers and the lives
of union members beyond the workplace. If we are right to believe
that the future of the labor movement is an urban one, union
activists and staffers, urban policymakers, elected officials, and
members of the public alike will require a fuller understanding of
what impels unions to become involved in urban policy issues, what
dilemmas structure the choices unions make, and what impact unions
have on the lives of urban residents, beyond their members.Unions
and the City serves as a road map toward both a stronger labor
movement and a socially just urbanism. The book presents the
findings of a collaborative project in which a team of labor
researchers and labor geographers based in New York City and
Toronto investigated how and why labor unions were becoming more
involved in urban regulation and urban planning. The contributors
assess the effectiveness of this involvement in terms of labor
goals-such as protecting employment levels, retaining bargaining
relationships with employers, and organizing new workforces-as well
as broader social consequences of union strategies, such as
expanding access to public services, improving employment equity,
and making neighborhoods more affordable. Focusing on four key
economic sectors (film, hospitality, green energy, and child care),
this book reveals that unions can exert a surprising level of
influence in various aspects of urban policymaking and that they
can have a significant impact on how cities are changing and on the
experiences of urban residents. Contributors Simon Black, Brock
University; Maria Figueroa, Cornell University; Lois S. Gray,
Cornell University; Ian Thomas MacDonald, University of Montreal;
James Nugent, University of Toronto; Susanna F. Schaller, City
College Center for Worker Education; Steven Tufts, York University;
K. C. Wagner, Cornell University; Mildred Warner, Cornell
University; Thorben Wieditz, York University
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