Mobilizing against Inequality : Unions, Immigrant Workers, and the Crisis of Capitalism /

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"Among the many challenges that global liberalization has posed for trade unions, the growth of precarious immigrant workforces lacking any collective representation stands out as both a major threat to solidarity and an organizing opportunity. Believing that collective action is critical in th...

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Other Authors: Tapia, Maite, 1981- (Editor), Turner, Lowell (Editor), Adler, Lee H. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Minority labor union members.
Labor movement.
Foreign workers > Labor unions > Organizing.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Mouvement ouvrier > Études de cas.
Syndiques issus des minorites > Études de cas.
Labor movement > Case studies.
Minority labor union members > Case studies.
Foreign workers > Labor unions > Organizing > Case studies.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : organizing immigrant workers / Lowell Turner
  • Union campaigns as countermovements : "best practice" cases from the United Kingdom, France, and the United States / Maite Tapia, Lowell Turner, and Denisse Roca Servat
  • The United States : tackling inequality in precarious times / Lee H. Adler and Daniel B. Cornfield
  • The United Kingdom : dialectic approaches to organizing immigrant workers, postwar to 2012 / Maite Tapia
  • France : battles for inclusion, 1968-2010 / Lowell Turner
  • Germany : success at the core, unresolved challenges at the periphery / Lee H. Adler and Michael Fichter
  • Opportunity and choice for unions organizing immigrant workers : a comparison across countries and industries / Gabriella Alberti, Jane Holgate, and Lowell Turner
  • The countermovement needs a movement (and a counter strategy) / Janice Fine and Jane Holgate
  • Integrative organizing in polarized times : toward dynamic trade unionism in the global north / Daniel B. Cornfield.

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