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Mobilizing Against Inequality : Unions, Immigrant Workers, and the Crisis of Capitalism.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Frank W. Pierce Memorial Lectureship and Conference SeriesPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (229 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801470240
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mobilizing Against InequalityDDC classification:
  • 331.8732086912
LOC classification:
  • HD6490
Online resources:
Contents:
Mobilizing Against Inequality -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Part I. Unions and the Mobilization of Immigrant Workers -- 1. Organizing Immigrant Workers -- 2. Union Campaigns as Countermovements: "Best Practice" Cases from the United Kingdom, France, and the United States -- Part II. Cases and National Contexts -- 3. The United States: Tackling Inequality in Precarious Times -- 4. The United Kingdom: Dialectic Approaches to Organizing Immigrant Workers, Postwar to 2012 -- 5. France: Battles for Inclusion, 1968-2010 -- 6. Germany: Success at the Core, Unresolved Challenges at the Periphery -- Part III. Comparisons and Policy Implications -- 7. Opportunity and Choice for Unions Organizing Immigrant Workers: A Comparison across Countries and Industries -- 8. The Countermovement Needs a Movement (and a Counterstrategy) -- 9. Integrative Organizing in Polarized Times: Toward Dynamic Trade Unionism in the Global North -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: The contributors to this volume set out to study union strategies toward immigrant workers in four countries: Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and United States.
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Mobilizing Against Inequality -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Part I. Unions and the Mobilization of Immigrant Workers -- 1. Organizing Immigrant Workers -- 2. Union Campaigns as Countermovements: "Best Practice" Cases from the United Kingdom, France, and the United States -- Part II. Cases and National Contexts -- 3. The United States: Tackling Inequality in Precarious Times -- 4. The United Kingdom: Dialectic Approaches to Organizing Immigrant Workers, Postwar to 2012 -- 5. France: Battles for Inclusion, 1968-2010 -- 6. Germany: Success at the Core, Unresolved Challenges at the Periphery -- Part III. Comparisons and Policy Implications -- 7. Opportunity and Choice for Unions Organizing Immigrant Workers: A Comparison across Countries and Industries -- 8. The Countermovement Needs a Movement (and a Counterstrategy) -- 9. Integrative Organizing in Polarized Times: Toward Dynamic Trade Unionism in the Global North -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index.

The contributors to this volume set out to study union strategies toward immigrant workers in four countries: Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and United States.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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