“…The contours of the study were, for that reason, considered with a view toward generalizing findings from a strongly representative case. Along with the other unions involved in the Coney Island coalition, UNITE-HERE is regarded in the literature as having innovated many of the tactics and strategies associated with labor renewal (Park 2004;Zuberi 2007;Tufts 2006; but see Tufts [2009] for a more critical appraisal). I use the term "labor-community coalition" in a manner consistent with Frege, Heery, and Turner's usage as "involving discrete, intermittent, or continuous joint activity in pursuit of shared or common goals between trade unions and other non-labor institutions in civil society, including community, faith, identity, advocacy, welfare, and campaigning organizations" (Frege, Heery, and Turner 2004, 138).…”