Next Wave Organizing Symposium
This issue examines how workers organize in the twenty-first century and how new tools and techniques can be harnessed to improve labor organizing. It features articles presented at a live symposium that took place at New York Law School in January 2005, as well as the stories of several labor organizations that are using innovative techniques to serve the legal needs of various constituencies. The symposium was organized by New York Law School’s Justice Action Center, Institute for Information Law and Policy, and Labor and Employment Law Program.
I. Articles
- Don’t Mourn – Reorganize! An Introduction to the Next Wave Organizing Symposium, Seth D. Harris
- Organizations, Movements, and Networks, Charles Heckscher
- Renewing and Maintaining Union Vitality: New Approaches to Union Growth, Fred Feinstein
- Overcoming Obstacles to Worker Representation: Insights From the Temporary Agency Workforce, Danielle D. van Jaarsveld
- New Institutions for Worker Representation in the United States: Theoretical Issues, Alan Hyde
- Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream, Janice Fine
- Impacting Next Wave Organizing: Creative Campaign Strategies of Los Angeles Worker Centers, Victor Narro
- Next Wave Organizing and the Shift to a New Paradigm of Labor Law, Jim Pope
II. Organization Profiles
- The Immigrant Workers Project of the AFL-CIO, Rosanna M. Kreychman & Heather H. Volik
- Industrial Areas Foundation, Helena Lynch
- The National Employment Law Project, Joshua N. Leonardi
- Working America, Lauren Snyder
- Working Today, Sarah N. Kelly & Christine Tramontano
- The Workplace Project, Emily Stein