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Format: Online-Ressource (288 p)

ISBN: 9780801478147

Content: Conflicting Commitments -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Work in Postindustrial America -- 2. Implementing the Legal Rights of Undocumented Workers -- 3. Place Matters: How Local Governments Enforce Immigrant Worker Rights -- 4. Beyond Government: How Civil Society Serves, Organizes, and Advocates for Immigrant Workers -- 5. Advocating across Borders: Consular Strategies for Protecting Mexican Immigrant Workers -- Conclusion: Making Rights Real for Immigrant Workers -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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Additional Edition: ISBN 9780801465772

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780801478147

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Conflicting Commitments : The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books

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Format: xvi, 272 p

Edition: Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780801465772

Content: "In Conflicting Commitments, Shannon Gleeson goes beyond the debate over federal immigration policy to examine the complicated terrain of immigrant worker rights. Federal law requires that basic labor standards apply to all workers, yet this principle clashes with increasingly restrictive immigration laws and creates a confusing bureaucratic terrain for local policymakers and labor advocates. Gleeson examines this issue in two of the largest immigrant gateways in the country: San Jose, California, and Houston, Texas. Conflicting Commitments reveals two cities with very different approaches to addressing the exploitation of immigrant workers--both involving the strategic coordination of a range of bureaucratic brokers, but in strikingly different ways. Drawing on the real life accounts of ordinary workers, federal, state, and local government officials, community organizers, and consular staff, Gleeson argues that local political contexts matter for protecting undocumented workers in particular. Providing a rich description of the bureaucratic minefields of labor law, and the explosive politics of immigrant rights, Gleeson shows how the lessons learned from San Jose and Houston can inform models for upholding labor and human rights in the United States"--Publisher's Web site

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Work in postindustrial AmericaImplementing the legal rights of undocumented workers -- Place matters : how local governments enforce immigrant worker rights -- Beyond government : how civil society serves, organizes and advocates for immigrant workers -- Advocating across borders : consular strategies for protecting Mexican immigrant workers -- Conclusion : making rights real for immigrant workers. , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780801478147

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780801451218

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Conflicting commitments

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9780801465772

Content: In Conflicting Commitments, Shannon Gleeson goes beyond the debate over federal immigration policy to examine the complicated terrain of immigrant worker rights. Federal law requires that basic labor standards apply to all workers, yet this principle clashes with increasingly restrictive immigration laws and creates a confusing bureaucratic terrain for local policymakers and labor advocates. Gleeson examines this issue in two of the largest immigrant gateways in the country: San Jose, California, and Houston, Texas.Conflicting Commitments reveals two cities with very different approaches to addressing the exploitation of immigrant workers-both involving the strategic coordination of a range of bureaucratic brokers, but in strikingly different ways. Drawing on the real life accounts of ordinary workers, federal, state, and local government officials, community organizers, and consular staff, Gleeson argues that local political contexts matter for protecting undocumented workers in particular. Providing a rich description of the bureaucratic minefields of labor law, and the explosive politics of immigrant rights, Gleeson shows how the lessons learned from San Jose and Houston can inform models for upholding labor and human rights in the United States.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , List of Abbreviations -- , Introduction: Immigrant Labor in the United States -- , 1. Work in Postindustrial America -- , 2. Implementing the Legal Rights of Undocumented Workers -- , 3. Place Matters: How Local Governments Enforce Immigrant Worker Rights -- , 4. Beyond Government: How Civil Society Serves, Organizes, and Advocates for Immigrant Workers -- , 5. Advocating across Borders: Consular Strategies for Protecting Mexican Immigrant Workers -- , Conclusion: Making Rights Real for Immigrant Workers -- , Notes -- , References -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.7591/9780801465772

URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801465772

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Format: 1 online resource : , illustrations

ISBN: 9780801465772 (ebook) :

Content: This book goes beyond the debate over federal immigration policy to examine the complicated terrain of immigrant worker rights. Federal law requires that basic labor standards apply to all workers, yet this principle clashes with increasingly restrictive immigration laws and creates a confusing bureaucratic terrain for local policymakers and labor advocates. The book examines this issue in two of the largest immigrant gateways in the country: San Jose, California, and Houston, Texas.

Note: Previously issued in print: 2012.

Additional Edition: Print version : ISBN 9780801451218

Language: English

URL: Cornell scholarship online