Building Bridges: The Challenges of Organized Labor in Communities of Color

TitleBuilding Bridges: The Challenges of Organized Labor in Communities of Color
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication1999
AuthorsKelley, R. D. G.
JournalNew Labor Forum
Pagination42 - 58
Date PublishedFall-Winter 1999
Keywordsanti-unionism, inner cities, labor unions, organizing, working class communities, working people of color
Abstract

History offers labor some important insights into contemporary efforts at building alliances with communities of color. For starters, these communities are often far more organized than is implied by labor's call to "organize the unorganized."