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Author Frozzini, Jorge, author

Title Immigrant and migrant workers organizing in Canada and the United States : casework and campaigns in a neoliberal era / Jorge Frozzini and Alexandra Law
Published Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]

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Contents Introduction -- Interdisciplinarity: on the importance of law, communication studies and anthropology in the present work -- (I)mmigrant workers and the union movement: legal and historical -- Global precarity -- Casework as an organizing tactic -- Campaigns and strategies in the United States and Canada: examples from the literature -- Conclusion
Summary In this book, Jorge Frozzini and Alexandra Law examine how immigrant workers organize in the United States and Canada. Frozzini and Law highlight workers' efforts to challenge their hyper-precarious living conditions and public perceptions of their experiences through the use of casework, coalition-building, and other tactics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Foreign workers -- Civil rights
Foreign workers -- Labor unions -- Organizing -- Canada -- Case studies
Foreign workers -- Labor unions -- Organizing -- United States -- Case studies
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Foreign workers -- Civil rights
Foreign workers -- Labor unions -- Organizing
Canada
United States
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Law, Alexandra, author
LC no. 2017043338
ISBN 9781498518130
1498518133