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New Directions in Racial and Economic Justice: How California’s Worker Centers Are Bringing Worker Power into Workforce Development

Building the Field and Capacity of Worker Centers

Organizing the South: Worker Centers in the Southern United States

Federal, State and Local Models of Strategic Enforcement and Co-enforcement Across the U.S.

Survival Economies: Black Informality in Chicago

Working on the Edge: A Survey of Low-Wage Workers in the Birmingham Area Amid a Global Pandemic

Platform Power to the People

Meeting the Moment: An Early Assessment of the Immigrant Worker Safety Net Fund during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Beyond Occupational Hazards: Abuse of Day Laborers and Health.

Regulating informality: Worker centers and collective action in day‐labor markets.

Day Laborers in the Eye of the Storm: As climate crises make post-disaster recovery work ever more essential, protecting migrant laborers from hazardous conditions and exploitation is an increasingly urgent task.

Six Months in Crisis: The Impact of COVID-19 on Domestic Workers

Center for Women and Work: Domestic Workers in New Jersey

Notes from the Storm: Black Immigrant Domestic Workers in the Time of COVID-19

Resilience Force, The New Florida Majority

A People’s Framework for Disaster Response: Rewriting the Rules of Recovery after Climate Disasters

Raising the floor: New directions in public and private enforcement of labor standards in the United States.

The Gig is Up: The new gig economy and the threat of subminimum wages

From the Help to Roma: How the National Domestic Workers Alliance Is Transforming Narratives in Pop Culture

Human Trafficking at Home: Labor Trafficking of Domestic Workers

Pirate Equity: How Wall Street Firms are Pillaging American Retail

The Worker Center Ecosystem in California: Organizing to Transform Low-Wage Industries

The Future of Warehouse Work: Technological Change in the U.S. Logistics Industry

The Datafication of Employment: How Surveillance and Capitalism Are Shaping Workers’ Futures without Their Knowledge

Better Wages, Better Tips: Restaurants Flourish with One Fair Wage

Pay, Professionalism & Respect: Black Domestic Workers Continue the Call for Standards in the Care Industry

Living in the Shadows: Latina Domestic Workers in the Texas-Mexico Border Region

No One Size Fits All: Worker Organization, Policy, and Movement in a New Economic Age

Mapping the Restaurant High-Value Supply Chain

What Do We Know about Gig Work in California?

Dying on the Job in Mississippi: Lack of Adequate Protection for Injured Workers Hurts Families and Communities

New Southern Strategies: Employment, Workers’ Rights and the Prospects for Regional Resurgence

After the Storm: Houston’s Day Labor Markets in the Aftermath of Hurricane Harvey

Segmentation and the role of labor standards enforcement in immigration reform.

Enforcing labor standards in partnership with civil society: Can co-enforcement succeed where the state alone has failed?.

After the Storm: Houston’s Day Labor Markets in the Aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.

From economic integration to socioeconomic inclusion: Day labor worker centers as social intermediaries.

The Human Trafficking of Domestic Workers in the United States: Findings from the Beyond Survival Campaign

Build a Better South: Construction Working Conditions in the Southern U.S.

Worker Justice Media and Communications Needs Assessment

Challenging the Business of Fear: Ending Workplace Retaliation, Enforcing Workers’ Rights

Deterring wage theft: Alt-labor, state politics, and the policy determinants of minimum wage compliance.

Organizing temporary, subcontracted, and immigrant workers: Lessons from change to win’s warehouse workers united campaign.

Tipped Over: Employer Liability in a Two-Tiered Wage State

Behind the Kitchen Door: The Promise of Opportunity in the San Francisco and Oakland Bay Area Restaurant Industry

Behind the Kitchen Door: Promise and Denial in Boston’s Growing Restaurant Industry

Behind the Kitchen Door: The Hidden Reality of Philadelphia’s Thriving Restaurant Industry

Nightcare: The Growing Challenge for Parents on the Late Shift

Day Labourers’ Work Related Injuries: An Assessment of Risks, Choices, and Policies.

Forked: A New Standard for American Dining

No Piece of the Pie: U.S. Food Workers in 2016

Shadow Prisons: Immigrant Detention in the South

A Snapshot of the On-Demand Economy Landscape

Transnational Workers Rights: Emerging Strategies from the Global North and South

Worker centers, worker center networks, and the promise of protections for low-wage workers.

Alternative labour protection movements in the United States: Reshaping industrial relations?

Working Below the Line: How the Subminimum Wage for Tipped Restaurant Workers Violates International Human Rights Standards

Picking Up the Tab: The Public Cost of Low Wages in the Full-Service Restaurant Industry

Behind the Kitchen Door: Extreme Inequality and Opportunity in Houston’s Vibrant Restaurant Economy

Ending Jim Crow in America’s Restaurants: Racial and Gender Occupational Segregation in the Restaurant Industry

Generative work: Day labourers’ Freirean praxis.

Rebuilding the house of labor: unions and worker centers in the residential construction industry.

Beyond Survival: Organizing to End Human Trafficking of Domestic Workers

The Failed Promise of the Texas Miracle

Black Space for Women Project

The CLEAN carwash initiative: Building worker power and fighting austerity through community and workplace organizing.

The Other NRA: Unmasking the Agenda of the National Restaurant Association

Recipe for Success: Abolish the Subminimum Wage to Strengthen the Restaurant Industry

The Great Divide: Occupational Segregation and Inequality in the U.S. Restaurant Industry

The Glass Floor: Sexual Harassment in the Restaurant Industry

Worker centers and day laborers’ wages.

Deporting the Evidence: Migrant Workers in the South Expose How U.S. Immigration Enforcement against Human Rights Defenders Violates the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Building A Movement Together: Worker Centers and Labor Union Affiliations.

Workers’ Rights on ICE: How Immigration Reform Can Stop Retaliation and Advance Labor Rights

Home Truths: Domestic Workers in California

The development of sectoral worker center networks.

The Third Shift: Child Care Needs and Access for Working Mothers in Restaurants

Realizing the Dream: How the Minimum Wage Impacts Racial Equity in the Restaurant Industry and in America

Behind the Kitchen Door

Build a Better Texas

Hearts and Minds: How Day Laborers are Represented in the Media

Worker self-organization in the new economy: The AFL-CIO’s experience in movement building with community-labour partnerships.

Taking the High Road: A How-To Guide for Successful Restaurant Employers

Tipped Over the Edge: Gender Inequity in the Restaurant Industry

Blacks in the Restaurant Industry Brief

Politicizing contingent work: Countering neoliberal labor market regulation… from the bottom up?

Home Economics: The Invisible and Unregulated World of Domestic Work

The Hands that Feed Us

New forms to settle old scores: Updating the worker centre story in the United States.

Immigrant workers, precarious work, and the US labor movement.

Realigning Labor: Toward a Framework for Collaboration between Labor Unions and Day Labor Worker Centers

Strengthening labor standards enforcement through partnerships with workers’ organizations.

Unity for Dignity: Expanding the Right to Organize to Win Human Rights at Work

Building Austin, Building Injustice

Broken Laws, Unprotected Workers

Building a future together: Worker centers and construction unions.

Collective Prosperity: The Power of a Multiethnic Agenda, a New York Model.

Day labor and workplace abuses in the residential construction industry: Conditions in the Washington, DC region.

A marriage made in heaven? Mismatches and misunderstandings between worker centres and unions.

And Injustice for All: Workers’ Lives in the Reconstruction of New Orleans

Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream

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