Organizing Immigrants

2018-09-05 Political Science

Author : Ruth Milkman
Release : 2018-09-05
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 830/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Organizing Immigrants by : Ruth Milkman

Download or read book Organizing Immigrants written by Ruth Milkman. This book was released on 2018-09-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recruiting the growing numbers of immigrants into union ranks is imperative for the besieged U.S. labor movement. Nowhere is this task more pressing than in California, where immigrants make up a quarter of the population and hold many of the manual jobs that were once key strongholds of organized labor. The first book to offer in-depth coverage of this timely topic, Organizing Immigrants analyzes the recent history of and prospects for union organizing among foreign-born workers in the nation's most populous state. Are foreign-born workers more or less receptive to unionization than their native-born counterparts? Are undocumented immigrants as likely as legal residents and naturalized citizens to join unions? How much does the political, cultural, and ethnic background of immigrants matter? What are the social, political, and economic conditions that facilitate immigrant unionization? Drawing on newly collected evidence, the contributors to this volume explore these and other questions, analyzing immigrant employment and unionization trends in California and examining recent strikes and organizing efforts involving foreign-born workers. The case studies include both successful and unsuccessful campaigns, innovative and traditional strategies, and a variety of industrial and service sector settings.

The New Urban Immigrant Workforce

2015-04-08 Business & Economics

Author : Sarumathi Jayaraman
Release : 2015-04-08
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 576/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis The New Urban Immigrant Workforce by : Sarumathi Jayaraman

Download or read book The New Urban Immigrant Workforce written by Sarumathi Jayaraman. This book was released on 2015-04-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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at contemporary immigrant labor organizing and mobilization draws on participant observation, ethnographic interviews, historical documents, and new case studies of three organizing drives.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. Many of the contributors highlight a specific ethnic group and special labor niches, such as the dominance of Punjabi in the New York City taxi industry. Each case study examines efforts beyond the conventional unions to organize the immigrants, such as worker centers and independent syndicalism on the job. An essential text for courses in labor-relations and immigrant studies, the book takes into account the latest debates in the fields of labor studies, urban studies, sociology, and political science.

New Immigrants, Old Unions

1993 Social Science

Author : Héctor L. Delgado
Release : 1993
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 446/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis New Immigrants, Old Unions by : Héctor L. Delgado

Download or read book New Immigrants, Old Unions written by Héctor L. Delgado. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A steady depletion in the ranks of organized labor has often been blamed on the influx of undocumented immigrant workers. Their fear of apprehension and deportation by immigration authorities has fostered the belief that they "cannot be organized." Hector Delgado challenges this view in an intricate case study of a successful union campaign waged by undocumented workers in a Los Angeles waterbed factory. Relying on rich intensive interviews and personal observation, the author relates the story of a plant where undocumented workers from Mexico and Central America voted for union representation by a two-to-one margin. He describes how they negotiated a collective bargaining agreement in the face of stiff employer opposition. Despite conventional wisdom about the ability to organize such workers, Delgado finds that factors other than citizenship status determine the outcome of unionization efforts on behalf of undocumented workers. He cites the following as primary factors that promote or retard unionization: the commitment of unions to organize undocumented workers, their length of residency in the United States, their roots and social networks, the demand for their labor, and the relatively visibility of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Los Angeles. New Immigrants, Old Unions contributes to our understanding of the experiences of contemporary American and Central American immigrants, their relationship to organized labor, and the meaning of undocumented status in their lives. Delgado's interviews with workers, labor organizers, and management reveal how and why this attempt to unionize was successful, and his findings confront the American labor movement's view of immigrant workers.

Popular eBooks

Organizing Immigrants

The New Urban Immigrant Workforce

You may also like...