Pablo Alvarado: An oral history
The Alt-Labor Chronicles: America’s Worker Centers
Read this series on how day laborers, domestics, fry cooks, and others have built institutions and won power to better their lives
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Worker Centers: Past, Present, and Future
How a movement of the most vulnerable workers has won major social reforms—and how it can build on those going forward
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Helping the Powerless Build Power
Oral histories of five activists who’ve worked in and for worker centers
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Voices to Votes: Worker Centers Meet the Political Moment
How—and why—worker centers expanded from providing services to engaging in electoral politics
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The Funding Dilemma
Unlike unions, worker centers can’t be sustained by their members’ dues. So survival is an ongoing challenge.
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Embracing and Resisting: The Variable Relationships Between Worker Centers and Unions
In some cities, the two kinds of worker organizations frequently collaborate. In other cities, not so much.
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John Sweeney and Worker Centers
The AFL-CIO president who aligned the labor establishment with the women, immigrants, and minorities of alt-labor
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Worker Centers: Where Causes Cohere, and Forge Power
At the crossroads of diverse social movements and worker representation, many centers have become models of intersectionality.
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Black Worker Centers: Building Workplace Power in the Communities
Even in anti-union terrains, the centers have found ways to change public and corporate policies.
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How the Powerless Win Power
Immigrant workers—particularly the undocumented—are denied basic rights, but through worker centers, they’ve aggregated their strength and bettered their lives.