TY - BOOK ID - 10649687 TI - Mobilizing against inequality : unions, immigrant workers, and the crisis of capitalism AU - Adler, Lee H. AU - Tapia, Maite AU - Turner, Lowell AU - AvendanĚo, Ana PY - 2014 SN - 1322522448 0801452791 0801479339 0801470242 9780801470240 0801470234 9780801470233 9781322522449 9780801452796 9780801479335 PB - Ithaca, New York : ILR Press, DB - UniCat KW - Foreign workers KW - Minority labor union members KW - Labor movement KW - Business & Economics KW - Labor & Workers' Economics KW - Labor unions KW - Organizing KW - Alien labor KW - Aliens KW - Foreign labor KW - Guest workers KW - Guestworkers KW - Immigrant labor KW - Immigrant workers KW - Migrant labor (Foreign workers) KW - Migrant workers (Foreign workers) KW - Labor and laboring classes KW - Employment KW - Minority membership KW - Employees KW - Social movements KW - Labor union members KW - E-books KW - Noncitizen labor KW - Noncitizens UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:10649687 AB - Among the many challenges that global liberalization has posed for trade unions, the growth of precarious immigrant workforces lacking any collective representation stands out as both a major threat to solidarity and an organizing opportunity. Believing that collective action is critical in the struggle to lift the low wages and working conditions of immigrant workers, the contributors to Mobilizing against Inequality set out to study union strategies toward immigrant workers in four countries: Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and United States. Their research revealed both formidable challenges and inspiring examples of immigrant mobilization that often took shape as innovative social counter movements. Using case studies from a carwash organizing campaign in the United States, a sans papiers movement in France, Justice for Cleaners in the United Kingdom, and integration approaches by the Metalworkers Union in Germany, among others, the authors look at the strategies of unions toward immigrants from a comparative perspective. Although organizers face a different set of obstacles in each country, this book points to common strategies that offer promise for a more dynamic model of unionism is the global North. The editors have also created a companion website for the book, which features literature reviews, full case studies, updates, and links to related publications. Visit it at www.mobilizing-against-inequality.info.Contributors: Lee H. Adler, Cornell University; Gabriella Alberti, Leeds University; Daniel B. Cornfield, Vanderbilt University; Michael Fichter, Global Labour University, Berlin; Janice Fine, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Jane Holgate, Leeds University; Denisse Roca-Servat, Pontifical Bolivarian University, Colombia; Maite Tapia, Michigan State University; Lowell Turner, Cornell University. ER -