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Review: Unions keep watch on corporations — Steven Greenhouse digs into labor’s battle
In the early 1990s, Los Angeles faced a turning point. Many of the aerospace and manufacturing jobs that had boomed during and after World War II, feeding a large, prosperous middle class, had evaporated.
Low-wage service jobs — dishwashers, janitors, home-care aides, hotel housekeepers — were exploding, often filled by African Americans and immigrants from Mexico and Central America.
In the wake of the fiery 1992 riots, two labor organizers, children of farmworkers, launched a scrappy new group to battle poverty and inequality. Over the following decades, the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE) would gather unions, community groups, environmentalists, immigrant advocates and clergy into one of the most powerful forces in the city.
In his sweeping new history, “Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor,” Steven Greenhouse devotes a detailed chapter to LAANE, as “an extraordinary incubator of pro-worker ideas” and a model for what he calls “a new and different labor movement.”
The group championed the nation’s broadest living-wage law; invented the concept of “community benefits agreements,” forcing big developers to hire locally and build l
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Steven Greenhouse was a reporter for The New York Times from 1983 to 2014, where he covered labor and the workplace for nineteen years. His forthcoming book, Beaten Down, Worked Up (Knopf, 2019), looks at key historic episodes that built the nation’s labor unions and at the future of the labor movement and workers in America. The book shows how labor unions helped create the world's largest, richest middle class and helped make America a fairer, more democratic nation. Beaten Down, Worked Up also examines new forms of worker power, such as the Fight for $15, the #RedforEd teachers' strikes, and some innovative efforts to lift farmworkers as well as Uber drivers and other gig workers. Greenhouse has been honored with the Society of Professional Journalists Deadline Club award, a New York Press Club award, a Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Reporting, and the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism for his last book, The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker (Knopf, 2008).
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