The New Urban Immigrant Workforce: Innovative Models for Labor Organizing
Autor Sarumathi Jayaraman, Immanuel Nessen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2005
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780765615343
ISBN-10: 0765615347
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0765615347
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Cuprins
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;
Notă biografică
Sarumathi Jayaraman, Immanuel Ness
Descriere
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at contemporary immigrant labor organizing and mobilization draws on participant observation, ethnographic interviews, historical documents, and new case studies of three organizing drives.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.