Stephanie Luce
Biographic Data
| ID | 219715 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephanie Luce |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Luce |
| SIGNATURE | LUCE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now: The Global Uprising against Poverty Wages by Annelise Orleck
Reviewed by: We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now": The Global Uprising against Poverty Wages by Annelise Orleck Stephanie Luce Annelise Orleck, "We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now": The Global Uprising against Poverty Wages ( Boston: Beacon Press 2018) These are dark times for workers. In many countries, wages have stagnated, union membership has fallen, and inequality is at a record high. Global corporations have acquired significant power to restruc…
Labor Unions and the Great Recession
Ruth Milkman, Stephanie Luce, Labor Unions and the Great Recession, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 3, The U.S. Labor Market During and After the Great Recession (April 2017), pp. 145-165
Workers of the World Have Nothing, and Everything, to Lose
On Whose Authority: Another Politics: Talking Across Today’s Transformative Movements
Per Hour or Bust: An Appraisal of the Higher Wages Movement
Revitalizing Unions, Rebuilding Labor Studies
Mobilizing Against Inequality: Unions, Immigrant Workers, and the Crisis of Capitalism is an edited volume that provides case studies of unions organizing immigrant workers in the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Germany. The book, edited by Lee H. Adler, Maite Tapia, and Lowell Turner, contains details of cases where unions have allied with community organizations and other social movement partners to expand union access or political r…
Behind the Kitchen Door , by Jayaraman, S
The Genie's Out of the Bottle: Insiders' Perspectives on Occupy Wall Street
A year after Occupy Wall Street (OWS)'s spectacular appearance in lower Manhattan, assessments of its impact range from the view that it was an ephemeral “flash movement” (Plotke 2012) to claims th
Nafta and the Politics of Labor Transnationalism
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A Labor Day Assessment of the past Year
Labor and Occupy Wall Street: An Appraisal of the First Six Months
The Living Wage: Lessons from the History of Economic Thought - By Donald R. Stabile
Donald R. Stabile , The Living Wage: Lessons from the History of Economic Thought . Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar , 2008 . vii + 163 pp. ISBN : 978 1 84844 197 2 . Hardback £59.95 . In the last 15 years, a social movement has grown in the US: labour–community coalitions and students pushing cities and universities to pay workers a living wage. The idea is not unique to the US, as workers have called for a living wage in countries around the world…
Low-Wage Women Workers: A Profile
Immigration and Labor: A Special Uale Conference Issue
Women and Class: What Has Happened in Forty Years
Forty years ago this summer, a group of women and men came together to form the National Organization for Women (NOW). NOW's mission was to fight for gender equality through education and litigation. While not the only group fighting for women's rights, it quickly became one of the best known and largest. Today, NOW has over a half million members and over 500 chapters throughout the country. NOW was founded at a time when women were entering the…
Planting Seeds
Eve S. Weinbaum, To Move a Mountain: Fighting the Global Economy in Appalachia (New York: The New Press, 2004), 320 pages, hardcover $25.95.It's easy to feel discouraged about the state of the left today, especially in the United States. While there are a number of exciting victories to be found, it feels like defeat is much more common. But as Eve Weinbaum argues in To Move a Mountain: Fighting the Global Economy in Appalachia, there is a differ…
Keeping Living Wages Alive
Welcome to Wal-Mart: Always Low Prices, Always Low Wages
Liza Featherstone, Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart (New York: Basic Books, 2004), 282 pages, cloth $25.00.In 1999, Wal-Mart became the largest private employer in the world. If it were a country, its annual sales would make it approximately the twentieth largest economy. The company is notoriously anti-union, but it has become increasingly a focus of attention for the labor movement around the world. Recen…
Lessons From Living-Wage Campaigns
This article looks at 10 years of living-wage campaigns to draw out lessons for labor-movement revitalization. Living-wage advocates have succeeded in passing legislation, building labor-community coalitions, raising awareness on economic development and wage issues, assisting new union organizing and winning raises for already unionized workers. Unions could also benefit by following lessons based on the living-wage movement. For example, labor …
Fighting for a Living Wage
The living wage movement is considered by many to be the most interesting grassroots enterprise to emerge since the civil rights movement. Ten years after the first ordinance was passed in Baltimore, there are more than one hundred living wage ordinances on the books across the United States, and the movement continues to thrive and grow, despite increasing opposition. This book is not a simple celebration of the living wage movement, but a criti…
The Full Fruits of Our Labor: The Rebirth of the Living Wage Movement
A detailed report by the Women's Educational and Industrial Union of Boston in 1998 revealed that many workers were earning hourly wages far below a "living wage." Employing what they called the "self-sufficiency standard," the activists succeeded in pushing the Boston City Council to pass a living wage ordinance. What many living wage activists did not realize is that this was not the first time the Women's Educational and Industrial Union had b…
The Living Wage: Building a Fair Economy
Per Hour or Bust: An Appraisal of the Higher Wages Movement
Nafta and the Politics of Labor Transnationalism
Lessons From Living-Wage Campaigns
This article looks at 10 years of living-wage campaigns to draw out lessons for labor-movement revitalization. Living-wage advocates have succeeded in passing legislation, building labor-community coalitions, raising awareness on economic development and wage issues, assisting new union organizing and winning raises for already unionized workers. Unions could also benefit by following lessons based on the living-wage movement. For example, labor …
Labor Unions and the Great Recession
Ruth Milkman, Stephanie Luce, Labor Unions and the Great Recession, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 3, The U.S. Labor Market During and After the Great Recession (April 2017), pp. 145-165
The Full Fruits of Our Labor: The Rebirth of the Living Wage Movement
A detailed report by the Women's Educational and Industrial Union of Boston in 1998 revealed that many workers were earning hourly wages far below a "living wage." Employing what they called the "self-sufficiency standard," the activists succeeded in pushing the Boston City Council to pass a living wage ordinance. What many living wage activists did not realize is that this was not the first time the Women's Educational and Industrial Union had b…
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A Labor Day Assessment of the past Year
Labor and Occupy Wall Street: An Appraisal of the First Six Months
The Living Wage: Building a Fair Economy
The Full Fruits of Our Labor: The Rebirth of the Living Wage Movement
A detailed report by the Women's Educational and Industrial Union of Boston in 1998 revealed that many workers were earning hourly wages far below a "living wage." Employing what they called the "self-sufficiency standard," the activists succeeded in pushing the Boston City Council to pass a living wage ordinance. What many living wage activists did not realize is that this was not the first time the Women's Educational and Industrial Union had b…
Fighting for a Living Wage
The living wage movement is considered by many to be the most interesting grassroots enterprise to emerge since the civil rights movement. Ten years after the first ordinance was passed in Baltimore, there are more than one hundred living wage ordinances on the books across the United States, and the movement continues to thrive and grow, despite increasing opposition. This book is not a simple celebration of the living wage movement, but a criti…
Keeping Living Wages Alive
Welcome to Wal-Mart: Always Low Prices, Always Low Wages
Liza Featherstone, Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart (New York: Basic Books, 2004), 282 pages, cloth $25.00.In 1999, Wal-Mart became the largest private employer in the world. If it were a country, its annual sales would make it approximately the twentieth largest economy. The company is notoriously anti-union, but it has become increasingly a focus of attention for the labor movement around the world. Recen…
Lessons From Living-Wage Campaigns
This article looks at 10 years of living-wage campaigns to draw out lessons for labor-movement revitalization. Living-wage advocates have succeeded in passing legislation, building labor-community coalitions, raising awareness on economic development and wage issues, assisting new union organizing and winning raises for already unionized workers. Unions could also benefit by following lessons based on the living-wage movement. For example, labor …
Women and Class: What Has Happened in Forty Years
Forty years ago this summer, a group of women and men came together to form the National Organization for Women (NOW). NOW's mission was to fight for gender equality through education and litigation. While not the only group fighting for women's rights, it quickly became one of the best known and largest. Today, NOW has over a half million members and over 500 chapters throughout the country. NOW was founded at a time when women were entering the…
Planting Seeds
Eve S. Weinbaum, To Move a Mountain: Fighting the Global Economy in Appalachia (New York: The New Press, 2004), 320 pages, hardcover $25.95.It's easy to feel discouraged about the state of the left today, especially in the United States. While there are a number of exciting victories to be found, it feels like defeat is much more common. But as Eve Weinbaum argues in To Move a Mountain: Fighting the Global Economy in Appalachia, there is a differ…
Low-Wage Women Workers: A Profile
Immigration and Labor: A Special Uale Conference Issue
The Living Wage: Lessons from the History of Economic Thought - By Donald R. Stabile
Donald R. Stabile , The Living Wage: Lessons from the History of Economic Thought . Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar , 2008 . vii + 163 pp. ISBN : 978 1 84844 197 2 . Hardback £59.95 . In the last 15 years, a social movement has grown in the US: labour–community coalitions and students pushing cities and universities to pay workers a living wage. The idea is not unique to the US, as workers have called for a living wage in countries around the world…
Nafta and the Politics of Labor Transnationalism
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A Labor Day Assessment of the past Year
Labor and Occupy Wall Street: An Appraisal of the First Six Months
The Genie's Out of the Bottle: Insiders' Perspectives on Occupy Wall Street
A year after Occupy Wall Street (OWS)'s spectacular appearance in lower Manhattan, assessments of its impact range from the view that it was an ephemeral “flash movement” (Plotke 2012) to claims th
Behind the Kitchen Door , by Jayaraman, S
Per Hour or Bust: An Appraisal of the Higher Wages Movement
Revitalizing Unions, Rebuilding Labor Studies
Mobilizing Against Inequality: Unions, Immigrant Workers, and the Crisis of Capitalism is an edited volume that provides case studies of unions organizing immigrant workers in the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Germany. The book, edited by Lee H. Adler, Maite Tapia, and Lowell Turner, contains details of cases where unions have allied with community organizations and other social movement partners to expand union access or political r…
On Whose Authority: Another Politics: Talking Across Today’s Transformative Movements
Labor Unions and the Great Recession
Ruth Milkman, Stephanie Luce, Labor Unions and the Great Recession, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 3, The U.S. Labor Market During and After the Great Recession (April 2017), pp. 145-165
Workers of the World Have Nothing, and Everything, to Lose
We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now: The Global Uprising against Poverty Wages by Annelise Orleck
Reviewed by: We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now": The Global Uprising against Poverty Wages by Annelise Orleck Stephanie Luce Annelise Orleck, "We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now": The Global Uprising against Poverty Wages ( Boston: Beacon Press 2018) These are dark times for workers. In many countries, wages have stagnated, union membership has fallen, and inequality is at a record high. Global corporations have acquired significant power to restruc…
Economics (16 works) · Political science (13 works) · Labour economics (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (8 works) · Living wage (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Wage (7 works) · Law (6 works)