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Book SynopsisRecruiting 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...
Trade ReviewOrganizing Immigrants provides a timely and coherent analysis of the key issue facing North American unions, and of some of the strategies that will allow us to meet this challenge.
* Relations industrielles/Industrial Relations *
Los Angeles is now the largest manufacturing center in the United States. It is also one of the most exploitative.... What then, are we to make of the fact that organizing drives among immigrant workers in the Los Angeles region during the early 1990s scored American labor's most notable recent victories' This important book studies what these and subsequent campaigns tell us about the organizability of the 'new immigrants' and union adaptability.... Researchers interested in immigrant workers or unions should read the book.
* Contemporary Sociology *
There is strikingly little contemporary empirical research on union organizing. This makes Milkman's Organizing Immigrants an extremely welcome addition to the literature. Despite its subtitle, this is not a volume for scholars and activists interested in California alone... It should be required reading for anyone examining organizing today.
* Social Forces *
This book about the challenges of organizing immigrant workers into unions could not have come at a better time... This important volume breaks new ground in its analysis of how unions organize immigrants.
* Industrial and Labor Relations Review *
Organizing Immigrants... is set apart from conventional work in California labor history.... Each chapter presents a superb and original analysis of the process as it has evolved within an international and a national context and within California. Each chapter is well argued, concluding with a summary of the issues it has raised and the debates it has tracked....It is a welcome contribution to the debates about organizing immigrant labor in California, and it deserves to be widely read.
* Business History Review *
