Title Disrupting deportability : transnational workers organize / Leah F. Vosko

Published Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2019 ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 173 pages) : illustrations Series Book collections on Project MUSE UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Political Science and Policy Studies Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Tables and Figures -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Deportability among Temporary Migrant Workers: An Essential Condition of Possibility for Migration Management -- 2. Getting Organized: Countering Termination without Just Cause through Certification -- 3. Maintaining a Bargaining Unit of Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) Employees: The Challenge of Blacklisting -- 4. Sustaining Bargaining Unit Strength: The Specter of Attrition -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Appendix: Tables -- Bibliography -- Index Summary "Explores the effects of deportability--a social condition characterized by the possibility of removal--on the exercise of labor rights amongst temporary migrant workers--primarily Mexican nationals engaged in Canada's model Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP)--struggling to organize, bargain collectively and sustain bargaining units"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 21, 2019) Subject Foreign workers, Mexican -- Civil rights -- Canada Agricultural laborers, Foreign -- British Columbia Foreign workers -- Labor unions -- Organizing -- British Columbia Deportation -- British Columbia Precarious employment -- British Columbia POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations. CANADA. Agricultural laborers, Foreign Deportation Foreign workers -- Labor unions -- Organizing Precarious employment British Columbia Canada Form Electronic book LC no. 2019981540 ISBN 9781501742163 1501742167 9781501742156 1501742159

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