Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2018
Keywords
Workers Centers, Social Movements, Labor Movements, Immigrant Workers
Abstract
Since the publication of Janice Fine’s path-breaking book, Worker Centers: Communities at the Edge o f the Dream in 2006, scholars and commentators on the left and the right of the political spectrum have grappled with how to characterize these emergent worker organizations on the US labor relations scene. This chapter deepens our understanding of the nature of worker centers by examining the funding trends that underlay the wide range of experimental organizing and advocacy strategies highlighted in other chapters of this volume. Undoubtedly, to emerge and survive, these organizations need money (Bobo and Pabellon 2016). But how financially stable are worker centers? How big are they? Where does the funding come from? How do they compare to labor unions? To address some of these questions, we compiled a large collection of available data to complete the first systematic empirical analysis of worker center funding across multiple years (2008 through 2014).
Publisher Attribution
Posted with permission from No One Size Fits All: Worker Organization, Policy, and Movement in a New Economic Age, 2018, ed. by Janice Fine et al. Copyright 2018 by the Labor and Employment Relations Association. Printed in the United States of America. All rights reserved. No part of the book may be used without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations in critical articles and reviews.
Recommended Citation
Gates, Leslie C.; Griffith, Kati L.; Kim, Jonathan; Mokhiber, Zane; and Bazler, Joseph C., "Sizing Up Worker Center Income (2008-2014): A Study of Revenue Size, Stability, and Stream" (2018). Sociology Faculty Scholarship. 11.
https://orb.binghamton.edu/sociology_fac/11