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Mobilizing against Inequality : Unions, Immigrant Workers, and the Crisis of Capitalism / ed. by Maite Tapia, Lee H. Adler, Lowell Turner.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Frank W. Pierce Memorial Lectureship and Conference SeriesPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (232 p.) : 5 tables, 2 chartsContent type:
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  • 9780801470240
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.87/32086912 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Part I. Unions and The Mobilization of Immigrant Workers -- 1. Organizing Immigrant Workers -- 2. Union Campaigns as Countermovements -- Part II. Cases and National Contexts -- 3. The United States -- 4. The United Kingdom -- 5. France -- 6. Germany -- Part III. Comparisons and Policy Implications -- 7. Opportunity and Choice for Unions Organizing Immigrant Workers -- 8. The Countermovement Needs a Movement (and A Counterstrategy) -- 9. Integrative Organizing in Polarized Times -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: 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 the struggle to lift the low wages and working conditions of immigrant workers, the contributors to Mobilizing against Inequality set out to study union strategies toward immigrant workers in four countries: Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and United States. Their research revealed both formidable challenges and inspiring examples of immigrant mobilization that often took shape as innovative social countermovements.Using case studies from a carwash organizing campaign in the United States, a sans papiers movement in France, Justice for Cleaners in the United Kingdom, andintegration approaches by the Metalworkers Union in Germany, among others, the authors look at the strategies of unions toward immigrants from a comparative perspective. Although organizers face a different set of obstacles in each country, this book points to common strategies that offer promise for a more dynamic model of unionism is the global North. The editors have also created a companion website for the book, which features literature reviews, full case studies, updates, and links to related publications. Visit it at www.mobilizing-against-inequality.info.Contributors: Lee H. Adler, Cornell University; Gabriella Alberti, Leeds University; Daniel B. Cornfield, Vanderbilt University; Michael Fichter, Global Labour University, Berlin; Janice Fine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Jane Holgate, Leeds University; Denisse Roca-Servat, Pontifical Bolivarian University, Colombia; Maite Tapia, Michigan State University; Lowell Turner, Cornell University.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Part I. Unions and The Mobilization of Immigrant Workers -- 1. Organizing Immigrant Workers -- 2. Union Campaigns as Countermovements -- Part II. Cases and National Contexts -- 3. The United States -- 4. The United Kingdom -- 5. France -- 6. Germany -- Part III. Comparisons and Policy Implications -- 7. Opportunity and Choice for Unions Organizing Immigrant Workers -- 8. The Countermovement Needs a Movement (and A Counterstrategy) -- 9. Integrative Organizing in Polarized Times -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index

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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 the struggle to lift the low wages and working conditions of immigrant workers, the contributors to Mobilizing against Inequality set out to study union strategies toward immigrant workers in four countries: Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and United States. Their research revealed both formidable challenges and inspiring examples of immigrant mobilization that often took shape as innovative social countermovements.Using case studies from a carwash organizing campaign in the United States, a sans papiers movement in France, Justice for Cleaners in the United Kingdom, andintegration approaches by the Metalworkers Union in Germany, among others, the authors look at the strategies of unions toward immigrants from a comparative perspective. Although organizers face a different set of obstacles in each country, this book points to common strategies that offer promise for a more dynamic model of unionism is the global North. The editors have also created a companion website for the book, which features literature reviews, full case studies, updates, and links to related publications. Visit it at www.mobilizing-against-inequality.info.Contributors: Lee H. Adler, Cornell University; Gabriella Alberti, Leeds University; Daniel B. Cornfield, Vanderbilt University; Michael Fichter, Global Labour University, Berlin; Janice Fine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Jane Holgate, Leeds University; Denisse Roca-Servat, Pontifical Bolivarian University, Colombia; Maite Tapia, Michigan State University; Lowell Turner, Cornell University.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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