A Renegade Union: Interracial Organizing and Labor Radicalism

by Lisa Ann Wunderlich Phillips

Dedicated to organizing workers from diverse racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, many of whom were considered "unorganizable" by other unions, the progressive New York City-based labor union District 65 counted among its 30,000 members retail clerks, office workers, warehouse workers, and wholesale workers. In this book, Lisa Phillips presents a distinctive study of District 65 and its efforts to secure economic equality for minority workers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252037324
• ISBN13: 9780252037320
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"