Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream
Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream
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工人中心：在梦想边缘组织社区
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2006
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J. Fine
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美国的低薪工人面临着各种障碍，包括种族和民族歧视、普遍缺乏工资执行、他们的就业分类错误，以及对一些人来说，他们是非法移民。过去，政党、工会和兄弟互助会是希望实现政治和经济一体化的工人的重要工具。随着这些传统公民机构的削弱，低薪工人必须寻求新的相互支持的结构。工人中心是工人们在努力建设充满活力的社区并获得经济和政治知名度时求助的机构之一。以社区为基础的工人中心帮助低薪工人获得社会服务，倡导他们自己的公民权利和人权，并组织起来改善工资、工作条件、社区和公立学校。在这本开创性的书中，Janice Fine确定了31个州80多个城市、郊区和农村地区的137个工人中心。这些中心吸引着难以组织的行业的工人，已经成为任何旨在帮助移民和低薪有色人种工人的计划中特别有用的组成部分。工人中心不仅是组织实验室，也是移民和其他低薪工人可以参与公民社会、向更大的社区讲述他们的故事、抵制种族主义和反移民情绪、努力提高他们的政治和经济地位的地方。
Low-wage workers in the United States face obstacles including racial and ethnic discrimination, a pervasive lack of wage enforcement, misclassification of their employment, and for some, their status as undocumented immigrants. In the past, political parties, unions, and fraternal and mutual-aid societies served as important vehicles for workers who hoped to achieve political and economic integration. As these traditional civic institutions have weakened, low-wage workers must seek new structures for mutual support. Worker centers are among the institutions to which workers turn as they strive to build vibrant communities and attain economic and political visibility. Community-based worker centers help low-wage workers gain access to social services; advocate for their own civil and human rights; and organize to improve wages, working conditions, neighborhoods, and public schools.In this pathbreaking book, Janice Fine identifies 137 worker centers in more than eighty cities, suburbs, and rural areas in thirty-one states. These centers, which attract workers in industries that are difficult to organize, have emerged as especially useful components of any program intended to assist immigrants and low-wage workers of color. Worker centers serve not only as organizing laboratories but also as places where immigrants and other low-wage workers can participate in civil society, tell their stories to the larger community, resist racism and anti-immigrant sentiment, and work to improve their political and economic standing.