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Author Davidoff, Al, author.

Title Unionizing the ivory tower : Cornell workers' fifteen-year fight for justice and a living wage / Al Davidoff
Published Ithaca, New York : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2023
©2023

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 239 pages) : illustrations
Contents Mophead -- Yes, Yes, No -- Custodians-That's All You'll Ever Be -- We Meet the Enemy and It Is Us -- Frankie McCoy -- Blackness on The Cornell Plantation -- Noah's Amalgamated Ark -- Figuring It Out -- "Float Like A Butterfly, Sting Like A Bee" -- Sustaining Struggle : Building the Union During the "Off Season" -- From Grassroots Up to Grassroots Out -- In the Shadow of the Tower
Summary "Al Davidoff's memoir of the low-wage service workers organizing a union at Cornell University. It describes the stages of creating a healthy, progressive union, including organizing, bargaining, forming campus and community coalitions, and engaging in creative strikes"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 18, 2023)
Subject International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. Local 2300 (Ithaca, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century
Cornell University -- Employees -- Labor unions -- Organizing
SUBJECT Cornell University fast
International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. Local 2300 (Ithaca, N.Y.) fast
Subject Universities and colleges -- Employees -- Labor unions -- Organizing -- New York (State) -- Ithaca
Collective bargaining -- College employees -- New York (State) -- Ithaca
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA).
Collective bargaining -- College employees
Universities and colleges -- Employees -- Labor unions -- Organizing
New York (State) -- Ithaca
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022056553
ISBN 9781501769825
1501769820
9781501769818
1501769812
Other Titles Cornell workers' fifteen-year fight for justice and a living wage
Cornell workers' 15-year fight for justice and a living wage