The 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At Contemporary Immigrant Labor Organizing And Mobilization Draws On Participant Observation, Ethnographic Interviews, Historical Documents, And New Case Studies Of Three Organizing Drives.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 Ta 1. Introduction -- 2. Socioeconomics And Conflict In Sending Remittances From New York City's Unstable Labor Markets To Peru / Alex Julca -- 3. Driving Taxis In New York City : Who Wants To Do It? / Diditi Mitra -- 4. Community Labor Alliances : Organizing Greengrocery Workers In New York City / Immanuel Ness -- 5. Models Of Worker Organizing / Saru Jayaraman And Immanuel Ness -- 6. La Alianza Para La Justicia : A Team Approach To Immigrant Worker Organizing / Saru Jayaraman -- 7. Center Stage : Domestic Workers Organizing In The Global City / Ai-jen Poo And Eric Tang -- 8. Organizing In The South Asian Domestic Worker Community : Pushing The Boundaries Of The Law And Organizing Project / Monika Batra -- 9. Rocing The Industry : Organizing Restaurant Workers In New York / Saru Jayaraman. Editors, Sarumathi Jayaraman And Immanuel Ness. First Published 2005 By M.e. Sharpe. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. English