LEADER 03213oam 2200589I 450 001 9910460393903321 005 20170821161641.0 010 $a1-315-69934-6 010 $a1-317-45556-8 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315699349 035 $a(CKB)3710000000401876 035 $a(EBL)2010579 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001461993 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12558369 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001461993 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11479589 035 $a(PQKB)10943895 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2010579 035 $a(OCoLC)909898755 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000401876 100 $a20180706e20152005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe new urban immigrant workforce $einnovative models for labor organizing /$feditors, Sarumathi Jayaraman and Immanuel Ness 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon :$cRoutledge,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (177 p.) 300 $aFirst published 2005 by M.E. Sharpe. 311 $a0-7656-1534-7 311 $a0-7656-1533-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. Socioeconomics and conflict in sending remittances from New York City's unstable labor markets to Peru / Alex Julca -- 3. Driving taxis in New York City : who wants to do it? / Diditi Mitra -- 4. Community labor alliances : organizing greengrocery workers in New York City / Immanuel Ness -- 5. Models of worker organizing / Saru Jayaraman and Immanuel Ness -- 6. La Alianza para La Justicia : a team approach to immigrant worker organizing / Saru Jayaraman -- 7. Center stage : domestic workers organizing in the global city / Ai-jen Poo and Eric Tang -- 8. Organizing in the South Asian domestic worker community : pushing the boundaries of the law and organizing project / Monika Batra -- 9. "ROCing" the industry : organizing restaurant workers in New York / Saru Jayaraman. 330 $aThis 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at contemporary immigrant labor organizing and mobilization draws on participant observation, ethnographic interviews, historical documents, and new case studies of three organizing drives.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 ta 606 $aLabor unions$xOrganizing$zUnited States 606 $aForeign workers$zUnited States 606 $aImmigrants$zUnited States$xSocial conditions 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLabor unions$xOrganizing 615 0$aForeign workers 615 0$aImmigrants$xSocial conditions. 676 $a331.89/12/0869120973 701 $aJayaraman$b Sarumathi$f1975-$0890635 701 $aNess$b Immanuel$0864151 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460393903321 996 $aThe new urban immigrant workforce$92055414 997 $aUNINA