Jobs With Justice: 25 Years, 25 Voices

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For 25 years, the labour-community coalition Jobs with Justice has endured the brutal vagaries of the global economy with a single alternative economic vision. By putting its ideas into practice, it has won powerful victories with working-class communities. Through a series of interviews and essays, Jobs with Justice allows the activists that have built JwJ to tell why the organisation's core principle - the power of solidarity between unions, community groups, and immigrant, student and faith organisations - continues to drive its victories at all levels.

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"Jobs with Justice: 25 Years, 25 Voices is a moving and insightful tribute to a project and movement that has represented the soul of organized labor in the USA. The stories contained in this volume reach beyond traditional organized labor and touch upon all those concerned with building a true movement for economic and social justice of which organized labor must be part. The determination that comes through in the stories, often in the face of significant challenges imposed on working people and their organizations, leads one to wish to shout: Yes, it can be done! Si se puede!"
--Bill Fletcher, Jr., co-author of Solidarity Divided; author of "They're Bankrupting Us!" and 20 Other Myths about Unions

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Eric Larson is a lecturer of history and literature at Harvard University. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Larry Cohen is the president of the Communications Workers of America and the Jobs with Justice founder. He lives in Washington, DC. Rev. Calvin Morris, PhD, is a member of the Jobs with Justice National Board of Directors and the former executive director of the Community Renewal Society in Chicago. He lives in Chicago. Sarita Gupta is the executive director of Jobs with Justice. She lives in Washington, DC.