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Fight for Fifteen The Right Wage for a Working America

by David Rolf
Fight for Fifteen The Right Wage for a Working America

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The fight for a higher minimum wage has become the biggest national labor story in decades. Beginning in November 2012, strikes by fast food workers spread across the country, landing in Seattle in May 2013. Within a year, Seattle had adopted a $15 minimum wage—the highest in the United States—without a bloody political battle.

Combining history, economics, and commonsense political wisdom, The Fight for Fifteen makes a deeply informed case for a national $15/hour minimum wage as the only practical solution to reversing Americas decades-long slide toward becoming a low-wage nation.

Drawing both on new scholarship and on his extensive practical experiences organizing workers and grappling with inequality across the United States, David Rolf, president of SEIU 775—which waged the successful Seattle campaign—offers an accessible explanation of “middle out” economics, an emerging popular economic theory that suggests that the origins of prosperity in capitalist economies lie with workers and consumers, not investors and employers.

A blueprint for a different and hopeful American future, The Fight for Fifteen offers concrete tools, ideas, and inspiration for anyone interested in real change in our lifetimes.

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Praise for David Rolf:

"Over the past fifteen years, no American unionist has organized as many workers, or won them raises as substantial, as Rolf."

—The American Prospect


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David Rolf is the president of SEIU 775, the fastest-growing union in the Northwest. He has led some of the largest organizing efforts since the 1930s, including the successful organization of 75,000 home care aides in Los Angeles. Rolf lives in Seattle.

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It's rare for a book to be grounded in a wealth of hard data while also daring to dream of a better world. The Fight for Fifteen goes even one step further by laying out a practical path to achieving the more just, less unequal society it envisions. And its prescription is rooted in the real-life experiences of workers across the U.S. who have already shown the way toward making change, by mobilizing regular people like themselves to stand together. Rolf manages to educate, inspire and challenge readers - not simply to understand income inequality, one of the greatest issues of our time, but to do something about it so that we can each play a part in becoming actors in shaping a better history yet to come.

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336
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5.40IN
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Yes
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David Rolf
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Politics-Labor

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