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Organizing Immigrants : The Challenge for Unions in Contemporary California / ed. by Ruth Milkman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2000Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) : 11 chartsContent type:
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  • 9781501728839
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.6/2 22
LOC classification:
  • HD6490.O72 U657 2000eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Who Does What? California's Emerging Plural Labor Force -- Chapter 2. Immigrant Workers and American Labor: Challenge ... or Disaster? -- Chapter 3. "Organize or Die": Labor's New Tactics and Immigrant Workers -- Chapter 4. Immigration and Unionization in the San Francisco Hotel Industry -- Chapter 5. Intense Challenges, Tentative Possibilities: Organizing Immigrant Garment Workers in Los Angeles -- Chapter 6. Organizing Latino Workers in the Los Angeles Manufacturing Sector: The Case of American Racing Equipment -- Chapter 7. Organizing the Wicked City: The 1992 Southern California Drywall Strike -- Chapter 8. Union Representation of Immigrant Janitors in Southern California: Economic and Legal Challenges -- Chapter 9. The Los Angeles Manufacturing Action Project: An Opportunity Squandered? -- References -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Summary: Recruiting the growing numbers of immigrants into union ranks is imperative for the besieged U.S. labor movement. Nowhere is this task more pressing than in California, where immigrants make up a quarter of the population and hold many of the manual jobs that were once key strongholds of organized labor. The first book to offer in-depth coverage of this timely topic, Organizing Immigrants analyzes the recent history of and prospects for union organizing among foreign-born workers in the nation's most populous state.Are foreign-born workers more or less receptive to unionization than their native-born counterparts? Are undocumented immigrants as likely as legal residents and naturalized citizens to join unions? How much does the political, cultural, and ethnic background of immigrants matter? What are the social, political, and economic conditions that facilitate immigrant unionization?Drawing on newly collected evidence, the contributors to this volume explore these and other questions, analyzing immigrant employment and unionization trends in California and examining recent strikes and organizing efforts involving foreign-born workers. The case studies include both successful and unsuccessful campaigns, innovative and traditional strategies, and a variety of industrial and service sector settings.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Who Does What? California's Emerging Plural Labor Force -- Chapter 2. Immigrant Workers and American Labor: Challenge ... or Disaster? -- Chapter 3. "Organize or Die": Labor's New Tactics and Immigrant Workers -- Chapter 4. Immigration and Unionization in the San Francisco Hotel Industry -- Chapter 5. Intense Challenges, Tentative Possibilities: Organizing Immigrant Garment Workers in Los Angeles -- Chapter 6. Organizing Latino Workers in the Los Angeles Manufacturing Sector: The Case of American Racing Equipment -- Chapter 7. Organizing the Wicked City: The 1992 Southern California Drywall Strike -- Chapter 8. Union Representation of Immigrant Janitors in Southern California: Economic and Legal Challenges -- Chapter 9. The Los Angeles Manufacturing Action Project: An Opportunity Squandered? -- References -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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Recruiting the growing numbers of immigrants into union ranks is imperative for the besieged U.S. labor movement. Nowhere is this task more pressing than in California, where immigrants make up a quarter of the population and hold many of the manual jobs that were once key strongholds of organized labor. The first book to offer in-depth coverage of this timely topic, Organizing Immigrants analyzes the recent history of and prospects for union organizing among foreign-born workers in the nation's most populous state.Are foreign-born workers more or less receptive to unionization than their native-born counterparts? Are undocumented immigrants as likely as legal residents and naturalized citizens to join unions? How much does the political, cultural, and ethnic background of immigrants matter? What are the social, political, and economic conditions that facilitate immigrant unionization?Drawing on newly collected evidence, the contributors to this volume explore these and other questions, analyzing immigrant employment and unionization trends in California and examining recent strikes and organizing efforts involving foreign-born workers. The case studies include both successful and unsuccessful campaigns, innovative and traditional strategies, and a variety of industrial and service sector settings.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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