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Author Ness, Immanuel

Title Immigrants, unions, and the new U.S. labor market / Immanuel Ness
Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 230 pages)
Contents Why new immigrants organize -- The political economy of transnational labor in New York City : the context for immigrant worker militancy -- Unions and immigrant worker organizing : new models for new workers -- Mexican immigrants, class formation, and union organizing in New York's Greengrocery industry -- Francophone West African Supermarket Delivery Workers Autonomous Union organizing outside of a union -- Black-Car drivers : industrial restructuring and new worker organizing -- The post-September 11 economic crisis and the government crackdown on immigrant workers -- Parallel organizing : immigrants and unions
Summary Examining the lives of immigrant workers, both on the job and off
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-217) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Foreign workers -- New York (State) -- New York
Working class -- New York (State) -- New York
Labor movement -- New York (State) -- New York
Foreign workers -- Labor unions -- Organizing -- New York (State) -- New York
Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York
Business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- General.
Business
Foreign workers
Foreign workers -- Labor unions -- Organizing
Immigrants
Labor movement
Working class
Ausländischer Arbeitnehmer
Gewerkschaft
Arbeitsmarkt
New York (State) -- New York
USA
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781592138029
1592138020