Suburban Sweatshops
Subtitle: The Fight for Immigrant Rights
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: February 18, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780674015241
Subjects: Human rights; Labour economics; Sociology; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; United States; Current Events / Law; Employee rights; Emigration & Immigration; Alien labor; Workplace Project (Organizatio
Description: "In 1992, Jennifer Gordon founded the Workplace Project to help immigrant workers in the underground suburban economy of Long Island, New York. In a story of determination and hope, she weaves together Latino immigrant life and legal activism to tell the unexpected tale of how the most vulnerable workers in society came together to demand fair wages, safe working conditions, and respect from employers. Immigrant workers - many undocumented - won a series of remarkable victories, including a raise of 30 percent for day-laborers and a domestic workers' bill of rights. In the process, they transformed themselves into effective political participants."--Jacket.