A Baseline of Decency: The Promise and Power of Alt-Labor and Worker Centers

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How do worker centers--small, underfunded community organizations representing low-wage, largely immigrant workers--manage to win sweeping new labor protections across US cities and states? In A Baseline of Decency, César F. Rosado-Marzán draws on participant observation, interviews, and document analysis centered on Chicago'...