TY - BOOK T1 - Mobilizing against Inequality: Unions, Immigrant Workers, and the Crisis of Capitalism Y1 - 2014 A1 - Adler, Lee H. A1 - Maite Tapia A1 - Lowell Turner KW - France KW - Germany KW - immigrant workers KW - low-wage workers KW - Mobilizing Against Inequality KW - United Kingdom 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.

PB - Cornell University Press CY - Ithaca, NY L2 - eng ER -