If we can win here: the new front lines of the labor movement

Do service-sector workers represent the future of the US labour movement?

Mid-twentieth-century union activism transformed manufacturing jobs from backbreaking, low-wage work into careers that allowed workers to buy homes and send their kids to college.

Some union activists insist that there is no reason why service-sector workers cannot follow that same path.

In this book, Fran Quigley tells the stories of janitors, fry cooks, and health care aides trying to fight their way to middle-class incomes in Indianapolis.

He also chronicles the struggles of the union organizers with whom the workers have made common cause.