ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the making of progressive multi-racial publics engaged in urban social justice struggles, and their attempts to create egalitarian political spaces to enact a potentially radical democratic politics. It shows how grassroots movements challenge undemocratic forms of authority and discrimination and attempts to create egalitarian political spaces. Making publics and enacting egalitarian political spaces also entail multiple spatialities and temporalities. Worker centers work towards constructing egalitarian political spaces that could indeed be transformative of urban politics. Worker centers in Los Angeles, California, have experienced some of the most rapid growth and greatest density in American cities. Both in their modalities of governance and campaigns strategies, worker centers have cultivated extensive relationships with other worker centers and national and international progressive movements, thereby opening up new spaces of circulation connecting urban politics to the wider labour movement.
