Representing the Under-Represented: Labor Unions as Urbanists

Persistent precarity is a fundamental, yet usually hidden and often overlooked condition of urbanism, particularly for those who represent the human labor that produces reproduces capitalist city. The question, then, how do this under-represented labor, unions, engage with influence underlying power structure actually shapes city? Labor unions simultaneously shape are shaped by spatial political economy contemporary This article examines phenomenon through analysis an illuminating case study, powerful Culinary Union in Las Vegas. Drawing from different primary secondary sources, offers several valuable insights: organized significant production city, urban can be mitigated advocating public realm, asserting agency dynamics city effective way influencing its urbanism.