Title: Miguel Contreras: Legacy of a Labor Leader
ISBN: 978-0-89215-006-9
Price: $15.00
Miguel Contreras: Legacy of a Labor Leader, by Kent Wong and Michael Viola, explores the Los Angeles labor movement, the emergence of new immigrant and worker struggles, and the role of one of the most
important labor leaders in recent history. Miguel Contreras (1952–2005) helped transform the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor into a dynamic and powerful force for social change by advancing a vision that linked immigrant organizing and political power. As a result, Los Angeles labor has become a leading force for progressive change in California politics.
Published in English and Spanish, this book explores Miguel’s life in five sections: 1) Miguel’s roots with the United Farm Workers union; 2) revitalizing the Los Angeles labor movement; 3) the struggle for immigrant rights; 4) building labor’s political power; and 5) Miguel’s lasting legacy. Integrated throughout are personal reflections from community and political leaders and archival photographs. This book can be used as a reference for educators, community members, youth, and labor organizations interested in furthering the movement for social justice.
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Title: Women's Work: Los Angeles Homecare Workers Revitalize the Labor Movement
ISBN: 978-0-89215-001-4
Price: $10.00
Women’s Work: Los Angeles Homecare Workers Revitalize the Labor Movement tells the story of the extraordinary Los Angeles County homecare organizing struggle. The book highlights just a few of the many voices that brought more than 74,000 new workers into the union movement, the largest targeted organizing campaign in decades. It successfully grew union strength nationwide and forever changed homecare services in the State of California. This collection of personal stories, campaign analysis, and an abbrieviated timeline tells one of America’s greatest stories of women of color standing together to demand fair wages, benefits, and the right to be "invisible no more."
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Title: Underground Undergrads: UCLA Undocumented Immigrant Students
ISBN: 0892150025
Price: $10.00
Featuring Stories by:
Mario Escobar: A former child soldier from El Salvador who recently attained asylum in this country.
Tam Tran: A UCLA graduate who testified before the U.S. Congress on the status of undocumented students.
Grace: A Korean student who gave up her student visa to qualify for AB 540 so she could attend UCLA.
Antonio: A Mexican immigrant who arrived in this country at the age of four and who struggled to finance and complete his college education.
This student publication, Underground Undergrads: UCLA Undocumented Immigrant Students Speak Out, features the growing student movement around access to higher education for undocumented students. Written by the students themselves, eight moving stories of undocumented immigrant students from UCLA provide the focal point of Underground Undergrads. The stories are unique and diverse, but they all demonstrate the pain, financial hardship, and emotional distress these students face as well as their ultimate triumph when they graduate from UCLA. Underground Undergrads also serves as an educational and research tool by providing a summary of the history of legislation impacting undocumented students in higher education as well as a resource guide of organizations that advocate for student rights.
"The young Bruins featured in this book represent some of the finest leaders of their generation.”
- Antonio Villaraigosa, Mayor, City of Los Angeles
“The voices of these students should be heard in Sacramento, in Washington, DC, and they should inspire us all to work harder for full rights for all immigrants.”
- Dolores Huerta, Cofounder, United Farm Workers of America
“Underground Undergrads reveals an inconvenient truth behind the empty slogans of those who offer hate instead of compassion in the debate on undocumented migration.”
- Douglas Massey, Professor of Sociology, Woodrow Wilson School,
Princeton University
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Title: Sweatshop Slaves: Asian Americans in the Garment Industry
ISBN: 0-89215-000-9
Price: $10.00
Featuring essays by
Helen Chien, Garment Center Worker
Kimi Lee, Garment Center Worker
Joann Lo, Garment Worker Center
Chancee Martorell, Thai Community Development Center
Julie Su, Asian Pacific American Legal Center
Rojana Cheunchujit Sussman, El Monte Slave Shop Activist
Sweatshop Slaves: Asian Americans in the Garment Industry is the first student publication to capture the role of Asian American workers in the sweatshop industry, highlighting the structure and organization of the industry, the history of sweatshops, the organizations and organizing campaigns that have worked to eradicate sweatshops, and brief oral histories of key leaders in the movement. There is also special coverage of the infamous El Monte sweatshop, where seventy-two Asian American workers were freed from modern-day slavery in 1995.
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Title: Teaching for Change: Popular Education and the Labor Movement
ISBN: 978-0615122755
Price: $20.00
Featuring essays by
Susan J. Schurman, National Labor College
Elaine Bernard, Harvard Trade Union Program
Jose La Luz, AFSCME
Susan Williams, Highlander Center
Susan Washington, AFL-CIO
John Hurst, UC Berkeley
Barb Thomas and D’Arcy Martin, Canadian popular educators
Teaching for Change: Popular Education and the Labor Movement is the first book to capture the stories and experiences of popular educators in the U.S. labor movement. From the Highlander Center in Tennessee to the Justice for Janitors campaign in Los Angeles, from the National Labor College in Maryland to the Avondale Shipyard workers of Louisiana, popular education has played a critical role in organizing workers, developing new leaders, and strengthening labor and community alliances. While drawing from the rich history of popular educators nationally and internationally, popular educators today are forging a new path based on the changing needs and conditions of workers and unions.
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Title: Voices for Justice: Asian Pacific American Organizers and the New Labor Movement
ISBN: 0853459371
Price: $10.00
Also Available in Chinese!
For the Chinese version of this book, please contact Maria Ochoa at mochoa@irle.ucla.edu or (310) 794-9111.
Includes interviews and photos from a new generation of organizers who are helping to change the US labor movement.
Featuring:
Luisa Blue
Francisco Chang
May Chen
Amado David
Ligaya Domingo Bob Hasegawa
Leonard Hoshijo
Susan Michi Minato
Quynh Nguyen
Raahi Reddy
Written by Kent Wong. Published by the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education.
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Title: Voices from the Front Lines: Organizing Immigrant Workers in Los Angeles
ISBN: 0-8014-8617-3
Price: $10.00
In Spanish and English, with interviews and photos from organizing campaigns that helped build the Los Angeles labor movement.
Featuring:
Maria Elena Durazo, HERE Local 11
Cristina Vazquez, UNITE
Rocio Saenz, SEIU Justice for Janitors
Macario Camorlinga, American Racing Campaign, IAM
Jesus Gomez, Drywall Campaign, Carpenters
Edited and with an introduction by Ruth Milkman and Kent Wong. Translation by Luis Escala Rabadan.
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