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In Connecticut she led the AFL-CIO's Stamford Organizing Project, a citywide multiunion campaign that aimed not only to unionize nursing-home workers and janitors but also to protect affordable housing. McAlevey is right that a whole worker approach is needed to create lasting strength, but in a given campaign, for a given set of workers, the precise alchemy and sequence of organizing, mobilization, and advocacy may vary. McAlevey does not identify restaurants, nail salons, day labor corners, or private homes as strategic sites for organizing, but the workers in these spaces and the immigrant worker centers supporting them have developed their own ways to win self-determination and power. Because the workers in some Asian countries are so explicitly repressed: they aren't allowed to use an independent Internet search engine to read stories of workers forming unions in places where the government doesn't attack them", she writes. [Extracted from the article]