Helots No More: A Case Study of the Justice for Janitors Campaign in Los Angeles

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Authors:  Roger Waldinger, Chris Erickson, Ruth Milkman, Daniel J. B. Mitchell, Abel Valenzuela, Kent Wong, Maurice Zeitlin

Date: January 1, 1998

Project: Helots No More: A Case Study of the Justice for Janitors Campaign in Los Angeles

This Paper analyzes the recent growth of janitorial unionism in LA against the background of the previous history of unionism’s rise and decline in the city’s building service industry, asking how and why the Justice for Janitors campaign succeeded in LA.
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