Facing economic upheaval and growing inequality, people in local
communities are fighting for economic justice. Coalitions from
labor, grassroots community organizations, the faith community,
immigrant communities and other progressive forces are emerging
across the U.S. and Canada and winning better jobs, benefits from
local development and better working conditions. A
multi-disciplinary group of scholars and activists provide
background and analysis of these struggles and offer insights into
successful community practice.
From the vantage points of community organizing, labor studies,
political science, urban studies, social policy and active
practitioners, this volume presents both background on the problem
of economic and social inequality and portrays cases of how
community practice is being redefined, how unions are pursuing
their goals via labor-community coalitions, and the issues
confronted as these new and vital alliances form. Community
practitioners from social work, urban planning, active union
members and leaders, labor educators, and those in the partnerships
they have formed all will find useful insights from these
analyses.
This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of
Community Practice.
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