New Urban Immigrant Workforce Innovative Models for Labor Organizing

This ground-breaking look at contemporary immigrant labor organizing and mobilization draws on participant observation, ethnographic interviews, historical documents, and new case studies of three organizing drives. The expert contributors provide tangible evidence of immigrants eagerness for collective action and organizing, parting Company with mainstream, thinking, they argue lucidly that immigrants' propensity to organize stems from social isolation. Many of the contributors highlight a specific ethnic group and special labor niches, such as the dominance of Punjabi in the New York City taxi industry. Each case study examines efforts beyond the conventional unions to organize the immigrants, such as worker centers and independent syndicalism on the job. An essential text for courses in labor-relations and immigrant studies, the book takes into account the latest debates in the fields of labor studies, urban, sociology, and political science.Jayaraman, Sarumathi is the author of 'New Urban Immigrant Workforce Innovative Models for Labor Organizing', published 2005 under ISBN 9780765615343 and ISBN 0765615347.