Economic Justice, Labor and Community Practice

ISBN-13: 9780415559751 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 254 str.

Louise Simmons;Scott Harding

Opis

Facing economic upheaval and growing inequality, people in local communities are fighting for economic justice. Coalitions from labor, grassroots community organizations, the faith community, immigrant communities and other progressive forces are emerging across the U.S. and Canada and winning better jobs, benefits from local development and better working conditions. A multi-disciplinary group of scholars and activists provide background and analysis of these struggles and offer insights into successful community practice.

From the vantage points of community organizing, labor studies, political science, urban studies, social policy and active practitioners, this volume presents both background on the problem of economic and social inequality and portrays cases of how community practice is being redefined, how unions are pursuing their goals via labor-community coalitions, and the issues confronted as these new and vital alliances form. Community practitioners from social work, urban planning, active union members and leaders, labor educators, and those in the partnerships they have formed all will find useful insights from these analyses.

This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Community Practice.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Scott Harding and Louise Simmons  Economic Realities, History and Framing  2. Inequality and Its Discontents: The Threatened Middle Class  Jill Littrell, Fred Brooks, Jan Ivery and Mary Ohmer  3. Promoting Economic Justice in a Global Context: International Comparisons of Policies that Support Economic Justice  Cynthia Rocha  4. Social Workers, Unions and Low Wage Workers: A Historical Perspective  Michael Reisch  5. Where’s the "Freedom" in Free Trade? Framing Practices and Global Economic Justice  Loretta Pyles  Labor-Community Partnerships for Economic Justice  6. The Politics and Practice of Economic Justice: Community Benefits Agreements as Tactic and Strategy of the New Accountable Development Movement  Virginia Parks and Dorian Warren  7. Evolving Strategies of Labor-Community Coalition Building  David Dobbie  8. Organizing Community and Labor Coalitions for Community Benefits Agreements in African American Communities: Ensuring Successful Partnerships  Bonnie Young Laing  9. Critical Pedagogy as a Tool for Labor-Community Coalition Building  Roland Zullo and Gregory Pratt  On the Front Lines, In the Classrooms  10. "Social Justice Infrastructure" Organizations as New Actors from the Community: the Case of South Florida  Bruce Nissen  11. Working Hard, Living Poor: Social Work and the Movement for Livable Wages  Susan Kerr Chandler  12. Organizing for Immigrant Rights: Policy Barriers and Community Campaigns  Jill Hanley and Eric Shragge  13. Outcomes of Two Construction Trades Pre-Apprenticeship Programs: A Comparison  Helena Worthen and Rev. Anthony Haynes  14. One Small Revolution: Unionization, Community Practice, and Workload in Child Welfare  Tara LaRose

O autorze

Louise Simmons is Associate Professor of Social Work and Director of the Urban Semester Program at the University of Connecticut School of Social Work.

Scott Harding is Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University of Connecticut School of Social Work.