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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457368903321

Autore

Ness Immanuel

Titolo

Guest workers and resistance to U.S. corporate despotism [[electronic resource] /] / Immanuel Ness

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-29293-9

9786613292933

0-252-09337-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

The working class in American history

Disciplina

331.6/20973

Soggetti

Foreign workers - United States

Labor market - United States

Electronic books.

United States Emigration and immigration Economic aspects

United States Emigration and immigration Government policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Migration and class struggle -- Political economy of migrant labor in US history: fabricating a migration policy for business -- India's global and internal labor migration and resistance: a case study of Hyderabad -- Temporary labor migration and U.S. and foreign-born worker resistance -- The migration of low-wage Jamaican guest workers -- Who can organize? Trade unions, worker insurgency, labor power.

Sommario/riassunto

Exposing the corporate structures behind exploitative migrant labour programs, this book investigates the use of guest workers in the United States, the largest recipient of migrant labour in the world.