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Book SynopsisExposing the corporate structures behind exploitative migrant labour programs
Trade ReviewBest Book Award for 2011-2012, United Association for Labor Education (UALE), 2013.
"Immanuel Ness's Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism offers an important intervention in the immigration debate by offering a much-needed, critical examination of the existing US guest worker programs. . . . A timely and important read for migration scholars and students alike."--Social Forces
"Relevant to anyone with an interest in the labour movement today."--
Socialism and Democracy"The topics of guest worker programs, internal and international labor migration, and worker organizing are fundamental to understanding today's economy and labor market. Immanuel Ness's argument that business is actively involved in creating the notion of labor shortages while pushing programs to meet their interests is a crucial addition to the immigration policy debate."--Stephanie Luce, author of
Fighting for a Living Wage"Incisive, scholarly yet accessible, but always uncompromising, this invaluable new contribution to migration studies exposes ways in which conservative and Republican officials, trade unions, corporations, and federal government policies collude and conspire against labor and, indeed, human rights."--Saër Maty Bâ, author of
Film and Migration: Africa in Global ContextsTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Guest Workers of the World; 2. Migration and Class Struggle; 3. Political Economy of Migrant Labor in US History: Fabricating a Migration Policy for Business; 4. India's Global and Internal Labor Migration and Resistance: A Case Study of Hyderabad; 5. Temporary Labor Migration and U.S. and Foreign-born Worker Resistance; 6. The Migration of Low-Wage Jamaican Guest Workers; 7. Who Can Organize? Trade Unions, Worker Insurgency, Labor Power Bibliography; Index
