Immigrant and migrant workers organizing in Canada and the United States : casework and campaigns in a neoliberal era

Immigrant and migrant workers organizing in Canada and the United States : casework and campaigns in a neoliberal era /

In this book, Jorge Frozzini and Alexandra Law examine how immigrant workers organize in the United States and Canada. Frozzini and Law highlight workers' efforts to challenge their hyper-precarious living conditions and public perceptions of their experiences through the use of casework, coali...

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Main Authors: Frozzini, Jorge (Author), Law, Alexandra (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, 2017
Subjects:
Foreign workers > Civil rights.
Foreign workers > Labor unions > Organizing > Canada > Case studies.
Foreign workers > Labor unions > Organizing > United States > Case studies.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Interdisciplinarity: on the importance of law, communication studies and anthropology in the present work
  • (I)mmigrant workers and the union movement: legal and historical
  • Global precarity
  • Casework as an organizing tactic
  • Campaigns and strategies in the United States and Canada: examples from the literature
  • Conclusion.

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