Ruth Milkman is Professor of Sociology at UCLA and the CUNY Graduate Center and Associate Director of the Murphy Labor Institute at CUNY. She is coeditor of Rebuilding Labor and editor of Organizing Immigrants, both from Cornell, and author of L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement. Joshua Bloom is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at UCLA and coauthor of the forthcoming Black against Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Black Panther Party. Victor Narro, J.D., is Project Director of the UCLA Downtown Labor Center.

Working for Justice serves both to refine and expand our knowledge of employee representation in Los Angeles through a collection of chapters related to union- and worker center-led efforts' on behalf of low-wage earning individuals. It offers a nuanced study of specific instances in which unions and advocacy groups have sought to organize low-wage workers.... The collection also takes us beyond the well-trodden ground of union advocacy in Los Angeles, introducing readers to the importance of worker centers within the region.... In so doing, the authors cover tremendously varied terrain while concurrently interweaving numerous threads of commonalities across the campaigns and organizing efforts to create a portrait of the intricate links between union and nonunion worker groups, a picture that most fully emerges in the excellent afterword.- J. Ryan Lamare (ILR Review) The essays in this volume offer us not only an informative account of some of the most vibrant and creative organizing campaigns to have emerged in recent years; they may also provide a glimpse of labor's future.- Joseph A. McCartin (Labor/Le Travail)

• Foreword by Joshua BloomIntroduction by Ruth MilkmanPart I: Worker Centers, Ethnic Communities, and Immigrant Rights AdvocacyChapter 1. The Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance: Spatializing Justice in an Ethnic "Enclave"by Jong Bum KwonChapter 2. Organizing Workers along Ethnic Lines: The Pilipino Workers' Centerby Nazgol GhandnooshChapter 3. Alliance-Building and Organizing for Immigrant Rights: The Case of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angelesby Caitlin C. PatlerChapter 4. Building Power for "Noncitizen Citizenship": A Case Study of the Multi-Ethnic Immigrant Workers Organizing Networkby Chinyere OsujiPart II: Occupational and Industry-Focused Organizing CampaignsChapter 5. The Los Angeles Taxi Workers Allianceby Jacqueline Leavitt and Gary BlasiChapter 6. From Legal Advocacy to Organizing: Progressive Lawyering and the Los Angeles Car Wash Campaignby Susan Garea and Sasha Alexandra SternChapter 7. NDLON and the History of Day Labor Organizing in Los Angelesby Maria DziembowskaChapter 8. The Garment Worker Center and the "Forever 21" Campaignby Nicole A. Archer, Ana Luz Gonzalez, Kimi Lee, Simmi Gandhi, and Delia HerreraPart III: Unions and Low-Wage Worker OrganizingChapter 9. Ally to Win: Black Community Leaders and SEIU's L. A. Security Unionization Campaignby Joshua BloomChapter 10. From the Shop to the Streets: UNITE HERE Organizing in Los Angeles Hotelsby Forrest StuartChapter 11. The Janitorial Industry and the Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fundby Karina MuñizAfterword by Victor NarroNotesReferencesAbout the ContributorsIndex

Ruth Milkman is Professor of Sociology at UCLA and the CUNY Graduate Center and Associate Director of the Murphy Labor Institute at CUNY. She is coeditor of Rebuilding Labor and editor of Organizing Immigrants, both from Cornell, and author of L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement. Joshua Bloom is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at UCLA and coauthor of the forthcoming Black against Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Black Panther Party. Victor Narro, J.D., is Project Director of the UCLA Downtown Labor Center.

Working for Justice serves both to refine and expand our knowledge of employee representation in Los Angeles through a collection of chapters related to union- and worker center-led efforts' on behalf of low-wage earning individuals. It offers a nuanced study of specific instances in which unions and advocacy groups have sought to organize low-wage workers.... The collection also takes us beyond the well-trodden ground of union advocacy in Los Angeles, introducing readers to the importance of worker centers within the region.... In so doing, the authors cover tremendously varied terrain while concurrently interweaving numerous threads of commonalities across the campaigns and organizing efforts to create a portrait of the intricate links between union and nonunion worker groups, a picture that most fully emerges in the excellent afterword.- J. Ryan Lamare (ILR Review) The essays in this volume offer us not only an informative account of some of the most vibrant and creative organizing campaigns to have emerged in recent years; they may also provide a glimpse of labor's future.- Joseph A. McCartin (Labor/Le Travail)

• Foreword by Joshua BloomIntroduction by Ruth MilkmanPart I: Worker Centers, Ethnic Communities, and Immigrant Rights AdvocacyChapter 1. The Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance: Spatializing Justice in an Ethnic "Enclave"by Jong Bum KwonChapter 2. Organizing Workers along Ethnic Lines: The Pilipino Workers' Centerby Nazgol GhandnooshChapter 3. Alliance-Building and Organizing for Immigrant Rights: The Case of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angelesby Caitlin C. PatlerChapter 4. Building Power for "Noncitizen Citizenship": A Case Study of the Multi-Ethnic Immigrant Workers Organizing Networkby Chinyere OsujiPart II: Occupational and Industry-Focused Organizing CampaignsChapter 5. The Los Angeles Taxi Workers Allianceby Jacqueline Leavitt and Gary BlasiChapter 6. From Legal Advocacy to Organizing: Progressive Lawyering and the Los Angeles Car Wash Campaignby Susan Garea and Sasha Alexandra SternChapter 7. NDLON and the History of Day Labor Organizing in Los Angelesby Maria DziembowskaChapter 8. The Garment Worker Center and the "Forever 21" Campaignby Nicole A. Archer, Ana Luz Gonzalez, Kimi Lee, Simmi Gandhi, and Delia HerreraPart III: Unions and Low-Wage Worker OrganizingChapter 9. Ally to Win: Black Community Leaders and SEIU's L. A. Security Unionization Campaignby Joshua BloomChapter 10. From the Shop to the Streets: UNITE HERE Organizing in Los Angeles Hotelsby Forrest StuartChapter 11. The Janitorial Industry and the Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fundby Karina MuñizAfterword by Victor NarroNotesReferencesAbout the ContributorsIndex