Sarumathi Jayaraman, Immanuel Ness

The New Urban Immigrant Workforce (eBook, ePUB)

Innovative Models for Labor Organizing

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This look at contemporary immigrant labor organizing and mobilization draws on participant observation, ethnographic interviews, historical documents, and new case studies of three organizing drives. The contributors argue that immigrants' propensity to organize stems from social isolation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317455561
• Artikelnr.: 42645591

Autorenporträt

Sarumathi Jayaraman, Immanuel Ness

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Socioeconomics and Conflict in Sending
Remittances from New York City's Unstable Labor Markets to Peru, Alex
Julca; Chapter 3 Driving Taxis in New York City: Who Wants to Do It?,
Diditi Mitra; Chapter 4 Community Labor Alliances: Organizing Greengrocery
Workers in New York City, Immanuel Ness; Chapter 5 Models of Worker
Organizing, Saru Jayaraman, Immanuel Ness; Chapter 6 La Alianza Para La
Justicia: A Team Approach to Immigrant Worker Organizing, Saru Jayaraman;
Chapter 7 Center Stage: Domestic Workers Organizing in the Global City,
Ai-Jen Poo, Eric Tang; Chapter 8 Organizing in the South Asian Domestic
Worker Community: Pushing the Boundaries of the Law and Organizing Project,
Monika Batra; Chapter 9 "ROCing" the Industry: Organizing Restaurant
Workers in New York, Saru Jayaraman;