Poor Workers' Unions: Rebuilding Labor from Below (Completely Revised and Updated Edition) - Paperback

by Vanessa Tait (Author), Cristina Tzintzún (Afterword by), Bill Fletcher (Foreword by)

Illuminates key connections between the social justice movements of the last fifty years and today's most innovative labor organizing.

Author Biography

Journalist and labor activist Vanessa Tait received her PhD in sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her writings have appeared in New Labor Forum, Critical Sociology, the Boston Phoenix and the Guardian.

Cristina Tzintzún is the executive director of Workers Defense Project (WDP), a statewide, membership-based workers' rights organization that is winning better working conditions for Texans. At WDP, Tzintzún has spearheaded efforts to ensure safe and dignified jobs for the nearly 900,000 construction workers that labor in the state. She also coedited Presente!: Latin@ Immigrant Voices in the Struggle for Racial Justice / Voces Inmigrantes Latin@s en la Lucha por la Justicia Racial.