Immigrant Workers, Precarious Work, and the US Labor Movement
نام عام مواد
[Article]
نام نخستين پديدآور
/ Ruth Milkman
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This article argues that the immigrant labor movement in the contemporary United States has three distinctive strands. The first involves traditional trade unionism. Although US unions once supported restrictive immigration policies, that has changed dramatically in the twenty-first century. Several leading US unions have recruited Latino immigrants employed in low-wage janitorial, retail, and hospitality work, and to a lesser extent in residential construction and in manufacturing. And both major union federations now support immigrant rights and a path to legalization for the undocumented. The second strand of the immigrant labor movement revolves around the advocacy and organizing efforts of labor-oriented NGOs – known in the US as ‘worker centers,’ which number well over 100 and are scattered across the country. Finally, a vibrant immigrant rights movement has taken shape in recent years, which represents a third type of immigrant labor activism. Although it uses the rhetoric of human rights and/or civil rights, its quest for legal status for the unauthorized is motivated primarily by the desire to improve immigrant employment opportunities and conditions. Despite tensions and differences that divide these three strands of immigrant labor activism, their basic goals and activities are increasingly synergistic and sometimes directly intersect.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
, (June 2011)
توصيف ظاهري
: P. 361-372
عنوان
Globalizations
شماره جلد
, 8/3
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
immigration
موضوع مستند نشده
unions
موضوع مستند نشده
labor
موضوع مستند نشده
precarious work
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