Immigrants, Unions, and The New U.S. Labor Market [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458807503321
• Autore: Ness Immanuel
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-94006-6; 9786612940064; 1-59213-802-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.6/2/097471; 331.880973
• Soggetti: Alien labor - Labor unions - Organizing - New York (State) - New York; Alien labor - New York (State) - New York; Foreign workers - Labor unions - Organizing - New York (State) - New York; Foreign workers -- Labor unions -- Organizing -- New York (State) -- New York; Foreign workers - New York (State) - New York; Foreign workers -- New York (State) -- New York; Immigrants - New York (State) - New York; Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York; Labor movement - New York (State) - New York; Labor movement -- New York (State) -- New York; Working class - New York (State) - New York; Working class -- New York (State) -- New York; Foreign workers - Organizing - Labor unions - New York (State) - New York; Immigrants - New York - New York (State); Business & Economics; Labor & Workers' Economics; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; 1 Why New Immigrants Organize; 2 The Political Economy of Transnational Labor in New York City: The Context for Immigrant Worker Militancy; 3 Unions and Immigrant Worker Organizing: New Models for New Workers; 4 Mexican Immigrants, Class Formation, and Union Organizing in New York's Greengrocery Industry; 5 Francophone West African Supermarket Delivery Workers Autonomous Union Organizing Outside of a Union; 6 Black-Car Drivers: Industrial Restructuring and New Worker Organizing; 7 The Post-September 11 Economic Crisis and the Government Crackdown on Immigrant Workers; 8 Parallel Organizing: Immigrants and UnionsNotes; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In recent years, New Yorkers have been surprised to see workers they had taken for granted-Mexicans in greengroceries, West African supermarket deliverymen and South Asian limousine drivers-striking, picketing, and seeking support for better working conditions. Suddenly, businesses in New York and the nation had changed and were now dependent upon low-paid immigrants to fill the entry-level jobs that few native-born Americans would take. Immigrants, Unions, and the New U.S. Labor Market tells the story of these workers' struggle for living wages, humane working conditions, and the