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Recommended Articles, Books and Reports
Films and Videos
Online Databases
Websites
Extended Bibliography
"Reaching Out to the Future: Unions Develop Key Leadership Skills
Among Young Workers." 
By Laureen Lazarovici, 2002, American at Work.
"Unions Must Tap Young Workers"
By Raj Jayadev, 2002, Z Magazine.
http://www.zmag.org/Zmag/articles/february02jayedev.htm
"The Next Working Class Speaks Out"
By Njeri Damali Campbell, Alana Kapell, Kenin King and Ryan Krell as told to Megan Park. 1999. Our Times.
http://www.ourtimes.ca/features/99next.html
"Gen X Catching on to the Benefits of Unionization"
By Laura Billings, Pioneer Press Columnist, Thu, Sep. 19, 2002.
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/columnists/laura_billings
/4102852.htm
"The Future of Low-Wage Jobs: Case Studies in the Retail Industry"
By Annette Bernhardt. 1999. "Institute on Education and the Economy (IEE) Working Paper
No.10. Teachers College, Columbia University. http://www.tc.columbia.edu/iee/PAPERS/workpap10.pdf
"When Good Jobs Go Bad: Young Adults and Temporary Work in the New Economy"
By Helene Jorgensen, The 2030 Center. 1999.
http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/uicued/tempwork/RESEARCH/LitReviews
/Jorgensen.pdf
"San Francisco Bike Messengers' Union Rolls Out Direct Action, Strikes"
By Nato Green. 2001. Labor Notes.
http://www.labornotes.org/archives/2001/0301/0301b.html
Youth at Work: The Unionized Fast-food and Grocery Workplace
By Stuart Tannock. 2001. Temple University Press.
http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1573_reg_print.html
Framing Youth: 10 Myths About the Next Generation
By Mike Males, Common Courage Press, 1999
http://www.bookcounter.com/big/1-56751-148-1
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies
(Chapter 10: Threats and Temps)
By Naomi Klein. 1999. Picador Press.
http://www.nologo.org
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
(Chapter 3: Behind the Counter)
By Eric Schlosser. 2001. Houghton Mifflin Press.
Young, Organizing, and I Know My Rights Punk!
A short video and discussion guide about young people and work
by the Canadian Labor Congress, filmed at their first nationwide
youth conference.
Live Nude Girls Unite
A moving and inspiring full-length documentary about how a group of women organized
the first union for strippers in the country.
http://www.livenudegirlsunite.com
Secrets of Silicon Valley
A behind-the-scenes exposé on the downsides of the Internet revolution, focusing
on temporary work and job training programs in Silicon Valley.
http://www.secretsofsiliconvalley.org/
The Merchants of Cool
An excellent PBS investigative report about how corporations co-opt youth culture.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/
Fast Food Women
A short documentary focusing on the lives of the women who work at four different chain
restaurants in eastern Kentucky. Explores how fast food jobs dehumanize and devalue
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Retail Workers.com
Where the disgruntled get their gruntles back. A terrific website, including dozens
of articles, discussion forums, mailing lists, and an opportunity for readers to send
in stories about work in the retail sector. A must see.
http://www.retailworker.com/
"Youth, Unions and You" Teachers Resource
This fantastic teacher's guide, put together by the British Columbia Teachers' Federation
and the B.C. Federation of Labour, contains dozens of thorough lesson plans for a 8th-
11th grade classes. A terrific resource for teachers.
http://www.bctf.ca/lessonaids/online/la2039
San Francisco Bike Messengers Association
The internet home of the innovative union/association of workers in the S.F. courier
industry – the first of its kind in the country. Includes links to articles, union
contracts, and other helpful tidbits.
http://www.messengers.org/sfbma/
Whole Foods Workers Unite
After successful organizing a major Whole Foods market in Madison, Wisconsin, these
fine folks are reaching out to other Whole Foods workers nationwide to help them unionize.
Website includes stories and lots of info about workers rights.
http://www.wholeworkersunite.org/
Powell's Bookstore Workers
Stories and information from the workers of ILWU Local 5 – recent victors in an
historic organizing campaign in Powell's Bookstore of Oregon.
http://www.ilwulocal5.com
LOHP Young Workers Health and Safety Project
UC Berkeley's Labor and Occupational Health Program has launched an innovative public
education initiative around workplace health and safety issues for young people.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~lohp/Projects/Young_Workers/
young_workers.html
The California Resource Network for Young Workers' Health and Safety
Valuable information for working teens, parents, educators, employers, and others about
safety hazards in many typical teen jobs, from fast food to agriculture, and explains
California wage, hour, and child labor regulations. The site also features a gallery
of entries in the poster contest and more information on the essay contest.
http://www.youngworkers.org
Canadian Labor Youth Committees
Canadian unions are at the world's forefront of youth-labor
activism. A number of unions have recently launched their own
youth committees designed to reach out to young workers with
info about their rights on the job and what unions do. The following
are sampling of websites from this movement.
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Barling, Julian, and Kevin Kelloway, eds. 1999. Young Workers:
Varieties of Experience. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological
Association.
Ben-Amos, Ilana. 1995. "Adolescence as a Cultural Invention: Phillippe Ariès
and the Sociology of Youth." History of the Human Sciences vol.8.2: 69-89.
Benson, Susan Porter. 1986. Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers and Customers
in American Department Stores, 1890-1940. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Bernhardt, Annette. 1999. The Future of Low-Wage Jobs: Case Studies in the Retail
Industry. Institute on Education and the Economy (IEE) Working Paper No.10. New
York: Teachers College, Columbia University.
http://www.tc.columbia.edu/centers/iee/PAPERS/Abstracts/wp10.htm
Blasi, Jeremy. 2000. Threads of Protest: Commodity Defetishism
and the Student Anti-Sweatshop Movement. Undergraduate Thesis,
Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley.
Boyden, Jo, Birgitta Ling, and William Myers. 1998. What
Works for Working Children. Sweden: UNICEF/Rädda Barnen.
Bunnage, Leslie. 2002. "Identity, Social Location and the Formation of Political
Agendas: Examining Experience, Privilege and Commitment Among Youth Labor Activists." University of California Institute of Labor and Employment Graduate Student Conference
Paper. Santa Cruz, CA.
Cheever, Ben. 2001. Selling Ben Cheever: Back to Square One in a Service Economy.
New York: Bloomsbury.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.11/streetcred.html?pg=14
http://www.archipelago.org/vol5-3/cheever.htm
Cobble, Dorothy Sue. 1991. Dishing it Out: Waitresses and
their Unions in the Twentieth Century. Urbana: University
of Illinois Press.
Cohen, Phil. 1999. Rethinking the Youth Question: Education, Labour, and Cultural
Studies. Durham: Duke University Press.
Cooper, Marc. 1999. "Boyz in the Union: Some Onetime Gangbangers Pump Up
Local Labor." LA Weekly, October 8-14.
Côté, James, and Anton Allahar. 1994. Generation on Hold: Coming of
Age in the Late Twentieth Century. Toronto: Stoddart Publishing.
DeLaurier, Gregory. 2001. Dying to Serve You: Violence in the Retail Workplace. Dollars
& Sense, September/October, 27-29.
Demos, John. 1986. Past, Present, and Personal: The Family and the Life Course in
American History. New York: Oxford University Press.
Ehrenreich, Barbara. 2001. Nickled and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.
New York: Metropolitan Books.
Elson, Diane. 1982. "The Differentiation of Children's Labour in the Capitalist Labour
Market." Development and Change vol.13: 479-497.
Esping-Anderson, Gosta, ed. 1993. Changing Classes: Stratification and Mobility in
Post-Industrial Societies. London: Sage.
Fasick, Frank. 1994. "On the ‘Invention' of Adolescence." Journal of Early
Adolescence 14.1: 6-23.
Featherstone, Liza. 1998. "The Burger International." Left Business Observer no.86.
Featherstone, Liza. 1999. "The Burger International Revisited." Left Business Observer no.91.
Fingeret, Hanna. 1994. Politics and Power in Workplace Literacy Education. 8,
31.
Fossey, Richard, and Mark Bateman, eds. 1998. Condemning Students to Debt: College
Loans and Public Policy. New York: Teachers College Press.
Giroux, Henry. 1997. Channel Surfing: Race Talk and the Destruction of Today's Youth.
Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press.
Glazer, Nona. 1993. Women's Paid and Unpaid Labor: The Work Transfer in Health Care
and Retailing. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. 1992. "From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities
in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor." Signs 18 (Autumn): 1-43
Greenberger, Ellen, and Laurence Steinberg. 1986. When Teenagers Work: The Psychological
and Social Costs of Adolescent Employment. New York: Basic Books.
Griffin, Christine. 1993. Representations of Youth: The Study of Youth and Adolescence
in Britain and America. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Grubb, Norton, Helena Worthen, Barbara Byrd and Elnora Webb. 1999. Honored but Invisible:
An Inside Look at Teaching in Community Colleges. New York: Routledge.
Grubb, Norton. 1996. Working in the Middle: Strengthening Education and Training
for the Mid-Skilled Labor Force. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Haigh, Cheryl. 1991. Employment While in College: A Study of its Effect on Academic
Achievement and Persistence at a Major University. Unpublished PhD Dissertation.
Berkeley: School of Education, University of California.
Harding, Edie, and Laura Harmon. 1999. Higher-Education Students' Off-Campus Work
Patterns. Olympia: Washington State Institute for Public Policy.
Harrison, Bennett, and Barry Bluestone. 1988. The Great U-Turn: Corporate Restructuring
and the Polarizing of America. New York: Basic Books.
Herzenberg, Stephen, John Alic, and Howard Wial. 1998. New Rules for a New Economy:
Employment and Opportunity in Post-Industrial America. Ithaca: ILR Press.
Hine, Thomas. 1999. The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager. New York: Avon
Books.
Hollingshead, A.B. 1961 [1949]. Elmtown's Youth. New York: Science Editions.
Horn, Laura. 1998. Undergraduates Who Work: National Post-Secondary Student Aid Study,
1996. Washington, D.C.: National Center for Educational Statistics.
Hughes, Katherine. 1999. Supermarket Employment: Good Jobs
at Good Wages? Institute on Education and the Economy (IEE)
Working Paper No.11. New York: Teachers College, Columbia University.
Johnson, Dirk. 2001. "For Teenagers, Fast Food is a Snack, Not
a Job." New York Times 8 January: A1.
Johnson, Richard. 1979. 'Really Useful Knowledge': Radical Education and Working-Class
Culture, 1790-1848. Working-Class Culture: Studies in History and Theory. Ed.
John Clarke, Chas Critcher and Richard Johnson. London: Hutchinson: 75-102.
Jorgensen, Helene. 1999. When Good Jobs Go Bad: Young Adults and Temporary Work in
the New Economy. Washington, DC: The 2030 Center.
Kett, Joseph. 1977. Rites of Passage: Adolescence in America
1790 to the Present. New York: Basic Books.
Klein, Naomi. 1994. "Salesgirl Solidarity." This Magazine (February): 12-19.
Klein, Naomi. 1999. No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies. New York: Picador.
http://www.nologo.org
Knickerbocker, Brian. 2000. The New Face of Racism in America. Christian Science
Monitor. January 14, 1.
Laxer, Kate. 1999. "Youth Roll-Call." Our Times vol .18.1:
34-37.
Lazarovici, Laureen. 2002. "Reaching Out to the Future: Unions
Develop Key Leadership Skills Among Young Workers." America@Work,
August issue.
Leidner, Robin. 1993. Fast Food, Fast Talk: Service Work and the Routinization of
Everyday Life. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Lipsig-Mummé, Carla. 1999. "Students By Day, Workers By Night: Organizing on
Campus." Our Times vol.18.1: 39-42.
Livingstone, David. 1999. The Education-Jobs Gap: Underemployment or Economic Democracy.
Toronto: Garamond Press.
Livingstone, David. 1999. The Education-Jobs Gap: Underemployment
or Economic Democracy. Toronto: Garamond Press.
Lorinc, John. 1994. "Fast Food, Slow Bargaining." This Magazine (June): 25-30.
Luxenberg, Stan. 1985. Roadside Empires: How the Chains Franchised
America. New York: Viking.
Macdonald, Cameron, and Carmen Sirianni. 1996. "The Service Society and the Changing
Experience of Work." Working in the Service Society. Ed. Cameron Macdonald and
Carmen Sirianni. Philadelphia: Temple University Press: 1-26.
Males, Mike. 1999. Framing Youth: 10 Myths About the Next
Generation. Monroe: Common Courage Press.
Marquardt, Richard. 1998. Enter at Your Own Risk: Canadian
Youth and the Labour Market. Toronto: Between the Lines. http://www.btlbooks.com/Search/work_technology_economics.htm
Mayo, James. 1993. The American Grocery Store: The Business Evolution of an Architectural
Space. Westport: Greenwood Press.
McGarrigle, Gavin. 1999. "Hope in Hospitality: Winning a First
Contract at the Cheesecake Café." Our Times vol
18.4: 31-35.
Moberg, David. 1996. "The Young and the Restless." In These
Times, November 25.
Nardinelli, Clark. 1990. Child Labor and the Industrial Revolution.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Nasaw, David. 1985. Children of the City: At Work & At Play. New York: Oxford
University Press.
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). 1994. Undergraduates Who Work While
Enrolled in Post-Secondary Education. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education.
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). 1998a. Employment and Postsecondary
Persistence and Attainment. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education.
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). 1998b. Post-Secondary Financing
Strategies: How Undergraduates Combine Work, Borrowing and Attendance. Washington,
DC: U.S. Department of Education.
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). 2002. Participation Trends and Patterns
in Adult Education, 1991 to 1999. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education.
National Research Council. 1998. Protecting Youth at Work. Washington, DC: National
Academy Press.
Newman, Katherine. 1999. No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City.
New York: Alfred Knopf.
Nieuwenhuys, Olga. 1996. "The Paradox of Child Labor and Anthropology." Annual Review
of Anthropology vol.25: 237-251.
Noyelle, Thierry. 1987. Beyond Industrial Dualism: Market and Job Segmentation in
the New Economy. Boulder: Westview Press.
O'Halloran, Chris and Debora De Angelis 2001. "Young People
& Unions: Making the Connection." Our Times vol.
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Osterman, Paul. 1980. Getting Started: The Youth Labor Market.
Cambridge: MIT Press.
Our Times Editorial Staff (1999) "A Special Report from the Next Working Class
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Pascarella, Ernest, et al. 1998. Does Work Inhibit Cognitive Development During College? Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 20, no.2: 75-93.
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27.
Peters, Cynthia. 2001. "Treating Teens Contemptuously: The Retail Squeeze." Znet
Daily Commentaries 4 August.
Rehnby, Nadine and Stephen McBride. 1997. Help Wanted: Economic
Security for Youth. Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Reich, Robert. 1991. The Work of Nations. New York: Vintage.
Rein, Marcy & Peter Olney. 2001. "Bike Messengers Organize." Social Policy, Fall issue
Reiter, Esther. 1991. Making Fast Food: From the Frying Pan
into the Fryer. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.
Reuters/CBS. 2000. "Summer Job Prospects Sizzle." CBS Evening News 31 July.
Ritzer, George. 1996. The McDonaldization of Society: An Investigation into the Changing
Character of Contemporary Social Life. Rev. ed. Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge Press.
Rooks, Daisy. 2002. "Sticking It In or Packing It Out: Union
Organizers and the Transformation of the Contemporary American
Labor Movement." University of California Institute of Labor
and Employment Graduate Student Conference Paper. Santa
Cruz, CA. http://www.iir.ucla.edu/research/grad_conf/2002/rooks.pdf
Schlosser, Eric. 2001. Fast Food Nation. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin.
Schneider, Barbara, and David Stevenson. 1999. The Ambitious Generation: America's
Teenagers, Motivated but Directionless. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Shaw, Kathleen, James Valadez, and Robert Rhoads, eds. 1999. Community Colleges as
Cultural Texts: Qualitative Explorations of Organizational and Student Culture.
Albany: State University of New York Press.
Slaughter, Jane. 1997. "Can Selling Books Ever Be a ‘Good Job'?" Labor Notes November: 3.
Sum, Andrew & Robert Taggart. 2001 The National Economic Downturn and Deteriorating
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for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University.
Tannock, Stuart, and Sara Flocks. 2002. 'I Know What It's
Like to Struggle': The Working Lives of Young Students in an
Urban Community College. Center for Labor Research and Education
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Tannock, Stuart. 2001. Youth at Work: The Unionized Fast-food and Grocery Workplace.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Tannock, Stuart. March, 2002. "Why Do Working Youth Work Where
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