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Helping the Powerless Build Power Oral histories of five activists who’ve worked in and for worker centers Mary Altaffer/AP Photo Activists rally outside New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office to call on a $15 minimum wage. Over the past quarter century, a new form of worker organization – worker centers – have arisen among groups of workers, primarily immigrants and African Americans, for whom unionization isn’t usually an option, largely due to the limited scope of the laws governing collective bargaining rights. To tell the stories of these organizations, the Prospect has conducted oral histories with a range of worker center activists and leaders. Here, edited and condensed for space, are excerpts from five of them.

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