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Author_Immanuel Ness
Author_Sarumathi Jayaraman
Average Income
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Brighton Beach
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CIO
CIO Unionism
collective action theory
Collective Bargaining Agreement
Cooperative Restaurants
domestic
Domestic Worker Industry
Domestic Workers United
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ethnographic labor research
Immigrant Domestic Workers
Immigrant Drivers
immigrant worker organizing models
immigrants
industry
Ivory Coast
La Alianza
labor migration studies
Leadership Development
LESC
Limousine Commission
Low Wage Immigrant Labor
Lower East Side
peruvian
Peruvian Immigrants
project
qualitative fieldwork methods
Remittance Flows
restaurant
Restaurant Industry
Restaurant Opportunities Center
taxi
Taxi Industry
Unpaid Back Wages
urban labor markets
Women Workers Project
worker center strategies
workers
workplace
Workplace Project
Product details
- ISBN 9780765615343
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Aug 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This ground-breaking look at contemporary immigrant labor organizing and mobilization draws on participant observation, ethnographic interviews, historical documents, and new case studies of three organizing drives. The expert contributors provide tangible evidence of immigrants' eagerness for collective action and organizing. Parting company with mainstream thinking, they argue lucidly that immigrants' propensity to organize stems from social isolation. Many of the contributors highlight a specific ethnic group and special labor niches, such as the dominance of Punjabi in the New York City taxi industry. Each case study examines efforts beyond the conventional unions to organize the immigrants, such as worker centers and independent syndicalism on the job. An essential text for courses in labor-relations and immigrant studies, the book takes into account the latest debates in the fields of labor studies, urban studies, sociology, and political science.
Sarumathi Jayaraman, Immanuel Ness
