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"""In this volume, Quigley (Indiana Univ. McKinney School of Law) presents a very accessible case study of contemporary labor organizing among low-income workers in a range of service sectors in Indianapolis, Indiana. The author focuses on recent organizing efforts-both successful and unsuccessful-among food service, hotel, and janitorial employees in a right-to-work state.Summing Up: Highly recommended."" -M.E. Pfeifer,Choice(November 2015) ""If We Can Win Here is a unique work of first-rate scholarship that tells the story of union organizing efforts in Indiana. Fran Quigley captures the heartbreak, pain, and occasional moments of transcendence that the young organizers and union activists face as they struggle to create a viable union movement in Indiana. This book gives the reader a very good sense of the ferment that is slowly transforming the labor movement. It introduced to me a new and fascinating cast of characters and gave me a vivid picture of their backgrounds, personalities, and problems.""-Julius Getman, Earl E. Sheffield Regents Chair Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin School of Law, author of The Betrayal of Local 14: Paperworkers, Politics and Permanent Replacements ""If We Can Win Here is an inside view of what organizing looks like in the 'reddest' of Midwest states: Indiana. In the face of right-to-work and despite a flood of mean-spirited pro-business legislation, workers in Indiana's growing service sector want union rights. Fran Quigley's book draws inspiring profiles of workers whose courage and persistence go beyond one organizing drive. His stories examine what it will take-what worked and what did not-to build unions in the roughest of terrains. It is a sobering must-read manual for organizers.""-Ruth Needleman, Professor Emerita, Indiana University, author of Black Freedom Fighters in Steel: The Struggle for Democratic Unionism"

If We Can Win Here is a unique work of first-rate scholarship that tells the story of union organizing efforts in Indiana. Fran Quigley captures the heartbreak, pain, and occasional moments of transcendence that the young organizers and union activists face as they struggle to create a viable union movement in Indiana. This book gives the reader a very good sense of the ferment that is slowly transforming the labor movement. It introduced to me a new and fascinating cast of characters and gave me a vivid picture of their backgrounds, personalities, and problems. -Julius Getman, Earl E. Sheffield Regents Chair Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin School of Law, author of The Betrayal of Local 14: Paperworkers, Politics and Permanent Replacements

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Fran Quigley is Clinical Professor and Director of the Health and Human Rights Clinic at Indiana University McKinney School of Law. He is the author of If We Can Win Here, also from Cornell, How Human Rights Can Build Haiti, and Walking Together, Walking Far. He is the cofounder of People of Faith for Access to Medicines, pfamrx.org.

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