Bargaining Power: Service Sector Strikes
Organizing strategy, labor history, and food-industry reporting that explain how hospitality and retail workers build leverage over wages, healthcare, and bargaining.
Optimized for books about Understanding how service-sector and food-retail workers organize, strike, and bargain, with historical and strategic context..
A Collective BargainJane McAlevey, Jane F. McAleveyJane McAlevey’s organizing-focused analysis gives readers tactical and strategic frameworks for building effective...Shelf signal: Unions & Labor
Fight Like HellKim KellyKim Kelly provides contemporary reportage on labor struggles, strikes, and workplace solidarity that illuminates the...Shelf signal: Labor & Industrial Relations
There Is Power in a UnionPhilip DrayPhilip Dray’s history traces the arc of American unions, helping readers place a local hospitality strike in longer...Shelf signal: Unions & Labor
The Secret Life of GroceriesBenjamin Lorr, Blackstone PublishingBenjamin Lorr’s reporting on grocery and food-industry labor exposes corporate practices and supply-chain pressures...Shelf signal: The Food Business
Sweetness and PowerSidney W. MintzSidney Mintz’s global history of sugar situates the chocolate industry and its labor dynamics within broader economic...Shelf signal: Social History
GroceryJonathan Todd Ross, Michael RuhlmanJonathan Todd Ross and Michael Ruhlman’s look at grocery and food systems offers context on how retail food businesses...Shelf signal: The Food Business