The new urban immigrant workforce :: innovative models for labor organizing /

This ground-breaking 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at contemporary immigrant labor organizing and mobilization draws on participant observation, ethnographic interviews, historical documents, and new case studies of three organizing drives.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 expert contributors provide tangible evidence of immigrants' eagerness for...

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Other Authors: Jayaraman, Sarumathi, 1975-, Ness, Immanuel
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, Inc., ©2005.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:This ground-breaking 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at contemporary immigrant labor organizing and mobilization draws on participant observation, ethnographic interviews, historical documents, and new case studies of three organizing drives.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 expert contributors provide tangible evidence of immigrants' eagerness for collective action and organizing. Parting company with mainstream thinking, they argue lucidly that immigrants' propensity to organize stems from social isolation.
Physical Description:1 online resource (vii, 168 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-159) and index.
ISBN:9781317455578
1317455576
9781315699349
1315699346

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