Unions and the city : negotiating urban change / edited by Ian Thomas MacDonald. - Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

Labor strategy and the politics of elite division : negotiating the high road in midtown Manhattan / The particular politics of casino development in Toronto : organized labor and the great casino debate / Film production unions? : efforts to incentivize local production in New York / Film unions' struggle to defend studio space in Toronto / Building a green New York : construction unions and community alliances / Community alliances struggling for good green jobs in Toronto's de-industrializing suburbs / Creating a city for workers : union strategies on child care in NYC / In defense of "gold-plated" child care : union struggles to preserve quality care and quality care work in Toronto's child care sector / Ian MacDonald -- Steven Tufts -- Maria Figueroa and Lois S. Gray -- Thorben Wieditz -- Maria Figueroa -- James Nugent -- Susanna F. Schaller, K.C. Wagner, Mildred E. Warner -- Simon Black.



9781501712692

2016045168


Labor unions--New York (State)--New York.
Labor unions--Ontario--Toronto.
Labor movement--New York (State)--New York.
Labor movement--Ontario--Toronto.
Community development, Urban--New York (State)--New York.
Community development, Urban--Ontario--Toronto.
Sociology, Urban--New York (State)--New York.
Sociology, Urban--Ontario--Toronto.


Electronic Books.

HD6519 / .U556 2017