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Guest workers and resistance to U.S. corporate despotism / Immanuel Ness.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ness, Immanuel.
- Series:
- Working class in American history.
- The working class in American history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foreign workers--United States.
- Foreign workers.
- Labor market--United States.
- Labor market.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.
- United States.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Exposing the corporate structures behind exploitative migrant labour programs, this book investigates the use of guest workers in the United States, the largest recipient of migrant labour in the world.
- Contents:
- Migration and class struggle
- Political economy of migrant labor in US history: fabricating a migration policy for business
- India's global and internal labor migration and resistance: a case study of Hyderabad
- Temporary labor migration and U.S. and foreign-born worker resistance
- The migration of low-wage Jamaican guest workers
- Who can organize? Trade unions, worker insurgency, labor power.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613292933
- 9781283292931
- 1283292939
- 9780252093371
- 0252093372
- OCLC:
- 759036587
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