Immigration And American Unionism

Author : Vernon M. Briggs, Jr.
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501722318

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Immigration and American Unionism by Vernon M. Briggs, Jr. Pdf

In the year 2000 the AFL-CIO announced a historic change in its position on immigration. Reversing a decades-old stance by labor, the federation declared that it would no longer press to reduce high immigration levels or call for rigorous enforcement of immigration laws. Instead, it now supports the repeal of sanctions imposed against employers who hire illegal immigrants as well as a general amnesty for most such workers. In this timely book, Vernon M. Briggs, Jr., challenges labor's recent about-face, charting the disastrous effects that immigration has had on union membership over the course of U.S. history.Briggs explores the close relationship between immigration and employment trends beginning in the 1780s. Combining the history of labor and of immigration in a new and innovative way, he establishes that over time unionism has thrived when the numbers of newcomers have decreased, and faltered when those figures have risen.Briggs argues convincingly that the labor movement cannot be revived unless the following steps are taken: immigration levels are reduced, admission categories changed, labor law reformed, and the enforcement of labor protection standards at the worksite enhanced. The survival of American unionism, he asserts, does not rest with the movement's becoming a partner of the pro-immigration lobby. For to do so, organized labor would have to abandon its legacy as the champion of the American worker.

Author : Bernard Weinstein
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783743568

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The Jewish Unions in America by Bernard Weinstein Pdf

Newly arrived in New York in 1882 from Tsarist Russia, the sixteen-year-old Bernard Weinstein discovered an America in which unionism, socialism, and anarchism were very much in the air. He found a home in the tenements of New York and for the next fifty years he devoted his life to the struggles of fellow Jewish workers. The Jewish Unions in America blends memoir and history to chronicle this time. It describes how Weinstein led countless strikes, held the unions together in the face of retaliation from the bosses, investigated sweatshops and factories with the aid of reformers, and faced down schisms by various factions, including Anarchists and Communists. He co-founded the United Hebrew Trades and wrote speeches, articles and books advancing the cause of the labor movement. From the pages of this book emerges a vivid picture of workers’ organizations at the beginning of the twentieth century and a capitalist system that bred exploitation, poverty, and inequality. Although workers’ rights have made great progress in the decades since, Weinstein’s descriptions of workers with jobs pitted against those without, and American workers against workers abroad, still carry echoes today. The Jewish Unions in America is a testament to the struggles of working people a hundred years ago. But it is also a reminder that workers must still battle to live decent lives in the free market. For the first time, Maurice Wolfthal’s readable translation makes Weinstein’s Yiddish text available to English readers. It is essential reading for students and scholars of labor history, Jewish history, and the history of American immigration.

Author : Immanuel Ness
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781592130412

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Immigrants Unions & The New Us Labor Mkt by Immanuel Ness Pdf

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 respect due to all people. It describes how they found the courage to organize labor actions at a time when most laborers have become quiescent and while most labor unions were ignoring them. Showing how unions can learn from the example of these laborers, and demonstrating the importance of solidarity beyond the workplace, Immanuel Ness offers a telling look into the lives of some of America's newest immigrants.

Author : Ruth Milkman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801486173

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Organizing Immigrants by Ruth Milkman Pdf

Comprises nine papers which explore the recruitment of immigrant workers into trade unions in different industries in California, USA mainly during the 1990s. Includes chapters on the relationship between immigrant status and unionization, both nationally and in California, and innovative tactics used by unions to recruit new workers.

Author : Lee H. Adler,Maite Tapia,Lowell Turner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801470233

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Mobilizing against Inequality by Lee H. Adler,Maite Tapia,Lowell Turner Pdf

Among the many challenges that global liberalization has posed for trade unions, the growth of precarious immigrant workforces lacking any collective representation stands out as both a major threat to solidarity and an organizing opportunity. Believing that collective action is critical in the struggle to lift the low wages and working conditions of immigrant workers, the contributors to Mobilizing against Inequality set out to study union strategies toward immigrant workers in four countries: Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and United States. Their research revealed both formidable challenges and inspiring examples of immigrant mobilization that often took shape as innovative social countermovements. Using case studies from a carwash organizing campaign in the United States, a sans papiers movement in France, Justice for Cleaners in the United Kingdom, and integration approaches by the Metalworkers Union in Germany, among others, the authors look at the strategies of unions toward immigrants from a comparative perspective. Although organizers face a different set of obstacles in each country, this book points to common strategies that offer promise for a more dynamic model of unionism is the global North. Visit the website for the book, which features literature reviews, full case studies, updates, and links to related publications at www.mobilizing-against-inequality.info.

Author : Gerald Rosenblum
Publisher : New York : Basic Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015038906999

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Immigrant Workers; Their Impact on American Labor Radicalism by Gerald Rosenblum Pdf

Sociological study of the historical impact of immigration to the USA on the evolution of the American labour movement, with particular reference to the limited response of many immigrants and migrant workers to trade union goals and to the stresses of modernization - includes references and statistical tables.

Author : Robert D. Parmet
Publisher : Krieger Publishing Company
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043949739

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Labor and Immigration in Industrial America by Robert D. Parmet Pdf

Author : Ruth Milkman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501728839

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Organizing Immigrants by Ruth Milkman Pdf

Recruiting the growing numbers of immigrants into union ranks is imperative for the besieged U.S. labor movement. Nowhere is this task more pressing than in California, where immigrants make up a quarter of the population and hold many of the manual jobs that were once key strongholds of organized labor. The first book to offer in-depth coverage of this timely topic, Organizing Immigrants analyzes the recent history of and prospects for union organizing among foreign-born workers in the nation's most populous state. Are foreign-born workers more or less receptive to unionization than their native-born counterparts? Are undocumented immigrants as likely as legal residents and naturalized citizens to join unions? How much does the political, cultural, and ethnic background of immigrants matter? What are the social, political, and economic conditions that facilitate immigrant unionization? Drawing on newly collected evidence, the contributors to this volume explore these and other questions, analyzing immigrant employment and unionization trends in California and examining recent strikes and organizing efforts involving foreign-born workers. The case studies include both successful and unsuccessful campaigns, innovative and traditional strategies, and a variety of industrial and service sector settings.

Author : Vernon M. Briggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Foreign workers
ISBN : CORNELL:31924091744320

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American Unionism and U.S. Immigration Policy by Vernon M. Briggs Pdf

Author : Ruth Milkman
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610443968

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L.A. Story by Ruth Milkman Pdf

Sharp decreases in union membership over the last fifty years have caused many to dismiss organized labor as irrelevant in today's labor market. In the private sector, only 8 percent of workers today are union members, down from 24 percent as recently as 1973. Yet developments in Southern California—including the successful Justice for Janitors campaign—suggest that reports of organized labor's demise may have been exaggerated. In L.A. Story, sociologist and labor expert Ruth Milkman explains how Los Angeles, once known as a company town hostile to labor, became a hotbed for unionism, and how immigrant service workers emerged as the unlikely leaders in the battle for workers' rights. L.A. Story shatters many of the myths of modern labor with a close look at workers in four industries in Los Angeles: building maintenance, trucking, construction, and garment production. Though many blame deunionization and deteriorating working conditions on immigrants, Milkman shows that this conventional wisdom is wrong. Her analysis reveals that worsening work environments preceded the influx of foreign-born workers, who filled the positions only after native-born workers fled these suddenly undesirable jobs. Ironically, L.A. Story shows that immigrant workers, who many union leaders feared were incapable of being organized because of language constraints and fear of deportation, instead proved highly responsive to organizing efforts. As Milkman demonstrates, these mostly Latino workers came to their service jobs in the United States with a more group-oriented mentality than the American workers they replaced. Some also drew on experience in their native countries with labor and political struggles. This stock of fresh minds and new ideas, along with a physical distance from the east-coast centers of labor's old guard, made Los Angeles the center of a burgeoning workers' rights movement. Los Angeles' recent labor history highlights some of the key ingredients of the labor movement's resurgence—new leadership, latitude to experiment with organizing techniques, and a willingness to embrace both top-down and bottom-up strategies. L.A. Story's clear and thorough assessment of these developments points to an alternative, high-road national economic agenda that could provide workers with a way out of poverty and into the middle class.

Author : Janice Ruth Fine
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801472571

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Worker Centers by Janice Ruth Fine Pdf

As national policy is debated, a locally based grassroots movement is taking the initiative to assist millions of immigrants in the American workforce facing poor pay, bad working conditions, and few prospects to advance to better jobs. Fine takes a comprehensive look at the rising phenomenon of worker centers, fast-growing institutions that improve the lives of immigrant workers through service advocacy and organizing.—from publisher information.

Author : Isaac Aaronovich Hourwich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015003525626

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Immigration and Labor by Isaac Aaronovich Hourwich Pdf

"The Immigration Commission, after three years of investigation, reached the conclusion that our immigration policy 'should be based primarily upon economic or business considerations.' This conclusion has determined the scope of the present book: it treats immigration solely as an economic question. For the same reason the discussion is confined to European immigration, Oriental immigration being viewed by many students primarily as a race question, which reaches our beyond the domain of economics."--From the preface.

Author : Héctor L. Delgado
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1566390443

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New Immigrants, Old Unions by Héctor L. Delgado Pdf

A steady depletion in the ranks of organized labor has often been blamed on the influx of undocumented immigrant workers. Their fear of apprehension and deportation by immigration authorities has fostered the belief that they "cannot be organized." Hector Delgado challenges this view in an intricate case study of a successful union campaign waged by undocumented workers in a Los Angeles waterbed factory. Relying on rich intensive interviews and personal observation, the author relates the story of a plant where undocumented workers from Mexico and Central America voted for union representation by a two-to-one margin. He describes how they negotiated a collective bargaining agreement in the face of stiff employer opposition. Despite conventional wisdom about the ability to organize such workers, Delgado finds that factors other than citizenship status determine the outcome of unionization efforts on behalf of undocumented workers. He cites the following as primary factors that promote or retard unionization: the commitment of unions to organize undocumented workers, their length of residency in the United States, their roots and social networks, the demand for their labor, and the relatively visibility of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Los Angeles. New Immigrants, Old Unions contributes to our understanding of the experiences of contemporary American and Central American immigrants, their relationship to organized labor, and the meaning of undocumented status in their lives. Delgado's interviews with workers, labor organizers, and management reveal how and why this attempt to unionize was successful, and his findings confront the American labor movement's view of immigrant workers.

Author : B. Ṿaynshṭeyn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Employees
ISBN : 1783743573

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The Jewish Unions in America by B. Ṿaynshṭeyn Pdf

"Newly arrived in New York in 1882 from Tsarist Russia, the sixteen-year-old Bernard Weinstein discovered an America in which unionism, socialism, and anarchism were very much in the air. He found a home in the tenements of New York and for the next fifty years he devoted his life to the struggles of fellow Jewish workers. The Jewish Unions in America blends memoir and history to chronicle this time. It describes how Weinstein led countless strikes, held the unions together in the face of retaliation from the bosses, investigated sweatshops and factories with the aid of reformers, and faced down schisms by various factions, including Anarchists and Communists. He co-founded the United Hebrew Trades and wrote speeches, articles and books advancing the cause of the labor movement. From the pages of this book emerges a vivid picture of workers’ organizations at the beginning of the twentieth century and a capitalist system that bred exploitation, poverty, and inequality. Although workers’ rights have made great progress in the decades since, Weinstein’s descriptions of workers with jobs pitted against those without, and American workers against workers abroad, still carry echoes today. The Jewish Unions in America is a testament to the struggles of working people a hundred years ago. But it is also a reminder that workers must still battle to live decent lives in the free market. For the first time, Maurice Wolfthal’s readable translation makes Weinstein’s Yiddish text available to English readers. It is essential reading for students and scholars of labor history, Jewish history, and the history of American immigration."--Publisher's website.

Author : Stefania Marino,Judith Roosblad,Rinus Penninx
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781788114080

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Trade Unions and Migrant Workers by Stefania Marino,Judith Roosblad,Rinus Penninx Pdf

This timely book analyses the relationship between trade unions, immigration and migrant workers across eleven European countries in the period between the 1990s and 2015. It constitutes an extensive update of a previous comparative analysis – published by Rinus Penninx and Judith Roosblad in 2000 – that has become an important reference in the field. The book offers an overview of how trade unions manage issues of inclusion and solidarity in the current economic and political context, characterized by increasing challenges for labour organizations and rising hostility towards migrants.