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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...
Brief description: Janice Fine is Assistant Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations in the School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Review Quotes: "Worker Centers is an important book. Worker centers are a new organizing form emerging among low-wage workers, and Janice Fine provides us with a comprehensive and analytically astute study of this new type of organizing."--Frances Fox Piven, author of The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush's Militarism