Chartered in 1921, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a worldwide organization that represents more than two million workers in occupations from healthcare and government service to custodians and taxi drivers. Women form more than half the membership while people in minority groups make up approximately forty percent.Luís LM Aguiar and Joseph A. McCartin edit essays on one of contemporary labor’s bedrock organizations. The contributors explore key episodes, themes...

El maíz es más antiguo que las primeras civilizaciones de Mesoamérica y su capacidad para resistir, coexistir y adaptarse a la llegada de otras plantas y formas de producción fue creación de todos los pueblos originarios y continúa como fundamento de la alimentación y de las culturas que integran la nación mexicana. Hay aquí 110 preguntas y respuestas surgidas de un sector preocupado por retomar la causa del maíz, su nobleza como alimento y las virtudes culturales con las que se ha desarro...

Among the many challenges that global liberalization has posed for trade unions, the growth of precarious immigrant workforces lacking any collective representation stands out as both a major threat to solidarity and an organizing opportunity. Believing that collective action is critical in the struggle to lift the low wages and working conditions of immigrant workers, the contributors to Mobilizing against Inequality set out to study union strategies toward immigrant work...