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Title Organizing immigrants : the challenge for unions in contemporary California / edited by Ruth Milkman
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 260 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction / Ruth Milkman -- Ch. 1. Who Does What? California's Emerging Plural Labor Force / David Lopez and Cynthia Feliciano -- Ch. 2. Immigrant Workers and American Labor: Challenge ... or Disaster? / Roger Waldinger and Claudia Der-Martirosian -- Ch. 3. "Organize or Die": Labor's New Tactics and Immigrant Workers / Rachel Sherman and Kim Voss -- Ch. 4. Immigration and Unionization in the San Francisco Hotel Industry / Miriam J. Wells -- Ch. 5. Intense Challenges, Tentative Possibilities: Organizing Immigrant Garment Workers in Los Angeles / Edna Bonacich -- Ch. 6. Organizing Latino Workers in the Los Angeles Manufacturing Sector: The Case of American Racing Equipment / Carol Zabin -- Ch. 7. Organizing the Wicked City: The 1992 Southern California Drywall Strike / Ruth Milkman and Kent Wong -- Ch. 8. Union Representation of Immigrant Janitors in Southern California: Economic and Legal Challenges / Catherine L. Fisk, Daniel J.B. Mitchell and Christopher L. Erikson -- Ch. 9. The Los Angeles Manufacturing Action Project: An Opportunity Squandered? / Hector L. Delgado
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-247) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Foreign workers -- Labor unions -- Organizing -- California
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
Foreign workers -- Labor unions -- Organizing
Gewerkschaft
Ausländischer Arbeitnehmer
Einwanderung
Travailleurs étrangers -- Organisation -- États-Unis -- Californie (États-Unis) -- 1990- ...
Syndicats -- Organisation -- États-Unis -- Californie (États-Unis) -- 1990- ...
California
Kalifornien
Form Electronic book
Author Milkman, Ruth, 1954-
ISBN 9781501728839
1501728830