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Bhairavi Desai, executive director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, center, speaks to reporters about Uber and other app-based services expanding to upstate New York, June 1, 2016, at the Capitol in Albany, New York. (Hans Pennink/AP Photo)

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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