The New Urban Immigrant Workforce: Innovative Models for Labor Organizing

By Immanuel Ness and Sarumathi Jayaraman

Book Overview

This 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at contemporary immigrant labor organizing and mobilization draws on participant observation, ethnographic interviews, historical documents, and new case studies of three organizing drives.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 contributors argue that immigrants' propensity to organize stems from social isolation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765615347
• ISBN13: 9780765615343
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"