Organizing immigrants
Subtitle: the challenge for unions in contemporary California
By: edited by Ruth Milkman.
Contributors: Milkman, Ruth, 1954-
Publisher: ILR Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Alien labor -- California -- Labor unions -- Organizing
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-247) and index.
Table of contents: title: Who does what? California's emerging plural labor force / David Lopez and Cynthia Feliciano; title: Immigrant workers and American labor: challenge ... or disaster? / Roger Waldinger and Claudia Der-Martirosian; title: "Organize or die": labor's new tactics and immigrant workers / Rachel Sherman and Kim Voss; title: Immigration and unionization in the San Francisco hotel industry / Miriam J. Wells; title: Intense challenges, tentative possibilities: organizing immigrant garment workers in Los Angeles / Edna Bonacich; title: Organizing Latino workers in the Los Angeles manufacturing sector: the case of American racing equipment / Carol Zabin; title: Organizing the wicked city: the 1992 southern California drywall strike / Ruth Milkman and Kent Wong; title: Union representation of immigrant janitors in southern California: economic and legal challenges / Catherine L. Fisk, Daneil J.B. Mitchell, and Christopher L. Erikson; title: The Los Angeles manufacturing action project: an opportunity squandered? / Héctor L. Delgado.