1st Edition
The New Urban Immigrant Workforce Innovative Models for Labor Organizing
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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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at contemporary immigrant labor organizing and mobilization draws on participant observation, ethnographic interviews, historical documents, and new case studies of three organizing drives.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... Read more
1. Introduction; 2. Socio-economics and Conflict in Sending Remittances from New York City's Unstable Labor Markets to Peru, Alex Julca; 3. Driving Taxis in New York City: Who Wants to Do It? Diditi Mitra; 4. Organizing Greengrocery Workers in New York City, Immanuel Ness; 5. Models of Worker Organizing, Saru Jayaraman and Immanuel Ness; 6. La Alianza Para La Justica: A Team Approach to Immigrant Worker Organizing, Saru Jayaraman; 7. Center Stage: Domestic Workers Organizing in the Global City, Ai-jen Poo and Eric Tang; 8. Organizing in the South Asian Domestic Worker Community: Pushing the Boundaries of the Law and Organizing Project, Monika Batra; 9. Organizing Case Study: Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York, Saru Jayaraman
Biography
Sarumathi Jayaraman, Immanuel Ness
