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In practice, that means organizing not just on the shop floor, but also around a broad range of issues, many of which are community-based, such as progressive welfare and wage policies, equal employment, and affirmative action, job creation, health and housing, and even global economic justice.

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"""'A critical contribution to broadening our understanding of who and what is the labor movement in the USA.... Tait captures the dynamism of alternative forms of working class organization that have long been ignored.' Bill Fletcher, Jr., President, TransAfrica Forum and former assistant to AFL-CIO President John Sweeney"""

'A critical contribution to broadening our understanding of who and what is the labor movement in the USA.... Tait captures the dynamism of alternative forms of working class organization that have long been ignored.' Bill Fletcher, Jr., President, TransAfrica Forum and former assistant to AFL-CIO President John Sweeney

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Vanessa Tait is a journalist and labour activist in Berkeley, California. Her radio work has appeared on Free Speech Radio News, Workers Independent News Service, Pacifica Network News, and Bay Area Pacifica station KPFA. She has also written for a variety of print media, including New Labor Forum, Critical Sociology, the Boston Phoenix and the Guardian Newsweekly. Tait is also a trained librarian, who has specialized in collections of South East Asian writers. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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