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New Directions in Racial and Economic Justice: How California’s Worker Centers Are Bringing Worker Power into Workforce Development

Kevin L. Lee, Magaly Lopez and Ana Luz Gonzalez-Vasquez

February 2, 2022

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New Directions in Racial and Economic Justice: How California’s Worker Centers Are Bringing Worker Power into Workforce Development finds that worker centers are invaluable actors in the state’s public workforce development system. Worker centers –– community-based organizations created by and for BIPOC and immigrant job seekers and workers in low-wage industries –– provide a comprehensive alternative to the status quo of workforce development through fostering leadership development, movement building, and systemic change.

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