Ray W. Howard Library: Social Justice & Human Rights: Class & Income

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Encyclopedia of Human Rights
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The five-volume Encyclopedia of Human Rights, edited by David Forsythe, offers comprehensive coverage of all aspects of human rights theory, practice, law, and history in over 300 entries signed by leading scholars and human rights experts. The coverage includes major figures, organizations and institutions, human rights events and crises, and human rights norms.
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Class & Income

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Online Resources & Organizations

PRRAC- Poverty & Race Research Action Council
PRRAC is a civil rights policy organization that aims to connect advocates with social scientists working on race and poverty issue, and to promote research-based advocacy strategies for structural inequality issues.
Pacific Northwest Labor and Civil Rights Projects
Twelve projects that focus on the Pacific Northwest's rich labor and civil rights history.
15 Now
Launched in 2014 by Seattle City Council Member, Kshama Sawant, and Socialist Alternative, the moment has now spread throughout the United States and seeks to address the growing economic inequality in the U.S. by raising the minimum wage to $15/hour.
CREW: Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
CREW is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization composed of a small group of lawyers, researchers, and communicators who aim to reduce the influence of money in politics and help foster a government that is ethical and accountable.
Solid Ground (Seattle)
"Solid Ground believes that housing & family stability are foundational to ending poverty. We help families keep or obtain housing & get support to overcome poverty & thrive."

Unions

Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
SEIU describes themselves as "an organization of 2-million members united by the belief in the dignity and worth of workers and the services they provide and dedicated to improving the lives of workers and their families and creating a more just and humane society."
American Federation of Labor/Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL/CIO)
An umbrella federation for U.S. unions, AFL-CIO includes 55 unions that represent 12.5 million working men and women. They work to " ensure that all people who work receive the rewards of their work—decent paychecks and benefits, safe jobs, respect and fair treatment."
UNITE HERE
A union representing workers in the U.S. and Canada who work in the hotel, gaming, food service, airport, textile, manufacturing, distribution, laundry, and transportation industries.
United Far Workers
Founded by Ceasar Chavez in 1962, this union "is the nation's first successful and largest farm workers union currently active in 10 states. The UFW continues to organize in major agricultural industries across the nation. Recent years have witnessed dozens of key UFW union contract victories, among them the largest strawberry, rose, winery and mushroom firms in California and the nation."
International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU)
Born from the longshoremen unions of the late 19th and early 20th century, the ILWU now has "approximately 42,000 members in over 60 local unions in the states of California, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, and Hawaii. An additional 3,500 members belong to the Inlandboatmen's Union of the Pacific... and another 14,000 members belong to the autonomous ILWU Candian Area."