Guest workers and resistance to U.S. corporate despotism
By: Immanuel Ness
Series: The working class in American history; Working class in American history
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780252036279; 9780252078170
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Economic aspects; Foreign workers; Government policy; Labor market
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Migration and class struggle; title: Political economy of migrant labor in US history: fabricating a migration policy for business; title: India's global and internal labor migration and resistance: a case study of Hyderabad; title: Temporary labor migration and U.S. and foreign-born worker resistance; title: The migration of low-wage Jamaican guest workers; title: Who can organize? Trade unions, worker insurgency, labor power.