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Opportunities for community organizing in the realm of economic justice and low wage worker struggles [electronic resource] /

by Makaros, Ayelet; Grodofsky, Merav Moshe.
Material type: materialTypeLabelArticleDescription: pp. 166-181.Subject(s): Community-labor coalitions, community organizing, economic justice, labor-community coalitions, labor organizing, low wage workersOnline resources: Click here to access full-text article Available online and in print. In: Journal of community practice 2016, Vol. 24, No. 2Summary: The new upsurge in labor organizing among low-wage workers provides community organizing with opportunities to engage in economic justice struggles. Low-wage workers are organizing in many sectors of the workforce that are difficult to organize. Their issues are part of the larger discourse concerning inequality in the United States. New forms of community organizing are developing in some areas that embrace economic justice issues. However, many of the national networks have yet to become involved in issues of community members in the capacities as workers. Macro social work needs to revisit its origins and forge a new tradition that incorporates the problems that inspired Jane Addams and her contemporaries, the issues of workers and immigrants.
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The new upsurge in labor organizing among low-wage workers provides community organizing with opportunities to engage in economic justice struggles. Low-wage workers are organizing in many sectors of the workforce that are difficult to organize. Their issues are part of the larger discourse concerning inequality in the United States. New forms of community organizing are developing in some areas that embrace economic justice issues. However, many of the national networks have yet to become involved in issues of community members in the capacities as workers. Macro social work needs to revisit its origins and forge a new tradition that incorporates the problems that inspired Jane Addams and her contemporaries, the issues of workers and immigrants.

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