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Conflicting Commitments : The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston / Shannon Gleeson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) : 2 tables, 4 chartsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780801451218
  • 9780801465772
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.62097641411 23
LOC classification:
  • HD8081.A5 G54 2016
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Immigrant Labor in the United States -- 1. Work in Postindustrial America -- 2. Implementing the Legal Rights of Undocumented Workers -- 3. Place Matters: How Local Governments Enforce Immigrant Worker Rights -- 4. Beyond Government: How Civil Society Serves, Organizes, and Advocates for Immigrant Workers -- 5. Advocating across Borders: Consular Strategies for Protecting Mexican Immigrant Workers -- Conclusion: Making Rights Real for Immigrant Workers -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: In Conflicting Commitments, Shannon Gleeson goes beyond the debate over federal immigration policy to examine the complicated terrain of immigrant worker rights. Federal law requires that basic labor standards apply to all workers, yet this principle clashes with increasingly restrictive immigration laws and creates a confusing bureaucratic terrain for local policymakers and labor advocates. Gleeson examines this issue in two of the largest immigrant gateways in the country: San Jose, California, and Houston, Texas.Conflicting Commitments reveals two cities with very different approaches to addressing the exploitation of immigrant workers-both involving the strategic coordination of a range of bureaucratic brokers, but in strikingly different ways. Drawing on the real life accounts of ordinary workers, federal, state, and local government officials, community organizers, and consular staff, Gleeson argues that local political contexts matter for protecting undocumented workers in particular. Providing a rich description of the bureaucratic minefields of labor law, and the explosive politics of immigrant rights, Gleeson shows how the lessons learned from San Jose and Houston can inform models for upholding labor and human rights in the United States.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Immigrant Labor in the United States -- 1. Work in Postindustrial America -- 2. Implementing the Legal Rights of Undocumented Workers -- 3. Place Matters: How Local Governments Enforce Immigrant Worker Rights -- 4. Beyond Government: How Civil Society Serves, Organizes, and Advocates for Immigrant Workers -- 5. Advocating across Borders: Consular Strategies for Protecting Mexican Immigrant Workers -- Conclusion: Making Rights Real for Immigrant Workers -- Notes -- References -- Index

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In Conflicting Commitments, Shannon Gleeson goes beyond the debate over federal immigration policy to examine the complicated terrain of immigrant worker rights. Federal law requires that basic labor standards apply to all workers, yet this principle clashes with increasingly restrictive immigration laws and creates a confusing bureaucratic terrain for local policymakers and labor advocates. Gleeson examines this issue in two of the largest immigrant gateways in the country: San Jose, California, and Houston, Texas.Conflicting Commitments reveals two cities with very different approaches to addressing the exploitation of immigrant workers-both involving the strategic coordination of a range of bureaucratic brokers, but in strikingly different ways. Drawing on the real life accounts of ordinary workers, federal, state, and local government officials, community organizers, and consular staff, Gleeson argues that local political contexts matter for protecting undocumented workers in particular. Providing a rich description of the bureaucratic minefields of labor law, and the explosive politics of immigrant rights, Gleeson shows how the lessons learned from San Jose and Houston can inform models for upholding labor and human rights in the United States.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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