Description
Book SynopsisThe contributors to this volume set out to study union strategies toward immigrant workers in four countries: Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and United States.
Trade Review"The immigrant workforce is both victimized as the most precarious element of the low-wage workforce and scapegoated by nativist and anti-immigrant elements as the cause of low wages and terrible working conditions. Through several case studies examining immigrant worker organizing in the United States and Europe, Mobilizing against Inequality provides vital insights into the importance of organizing the immigrant workforce and fully integrating immigrants into the general society as the best way to protect and improve wages and working conditions across the board. These insights can inform the debate in the United States at a time when immigration policy is under close examination and change is on the horizon." -- Robert P. Deasy, immigration law and policy specialist
Table of ContentsForeword by Ana Avendaño
Acknowledgments
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
Part I UNIONS AND THE MOBILIZATION OF IMMIGRANT WORKERS
1. Organizing Immigrant Workers Lowell Turner
2. Union Campaigns as Countermovements: "Best Practice" Cases from the United Kingdom, France, and the United States Maite Tapia, Lowell Turner, and Denisse Roca-Servat
Part II CASES AND NATIONAL CONTEXTS
3. The United States: Tackling Inequality in Precarious Times Lee H. Adler and Daniel B. Cornfield
4. The United Kingdom: Dialectic Approaches to Organizing Immigrant Workers, Postwar to 2012 Maite Tapia
5. France: Battles for Inclusion, 1968–2010 Lowell Turner
6. Germany: Success at the Core, Unresolved Challenges at the Periphery Lee H. Adler and Michael Fichter
Part III COMPARISONS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS
7. Opportunity and Choice for Unions Organizing Immigrant Workers: A Comparison across Countries and Industries Gabriella Alberti, Jane Holgate, and Lowell Turner
8. The Countermovement Needs a Movement (and a Counterstrategy) Janice Fine and Jane Holgate
9. Integrative Organizing in Polarized Times: Toward Dynamic Trade Unionism in the Global North Daniel B. Cornfield
