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L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers And the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement

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Condition: Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including ... Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab

ISBN: 9780871546357

Subject Area: Business & Economics, Social Science

Publication Name: L. A. Story : Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U. S. Labor Movement

Item Length: 9 in

Publisher: Russell SAGE Foundation

Subject: Sociology / General, Emigration & Immigration, Labor

Publication Year: 2006

Type: Textbook

Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

Item Height: 0.8 in

Author: Ruth Milkman

Item Width: 6 in

Item Weight: 14.1 Oz

Number of Pages: 258 Pages

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Sharp decreases in union membership over the last fifty years have caused many to dismiss organized labor as irrelevant in today's labor market. In the private sector, only 8 percent of workers today are union members, down from 24 percent as recently as 1973. Yet developments in Southern California--including the successful Justice for Janitors campaign--suggest that reports of organized labor's demise may have been exaggerated. In L.A. Story, sociologist and labor expert Ruth Milkman explains how Los Angeles, once known as a company town hostile to labor, became a hotbed for unionism, and how immigrant service workers emerged as the unlikely leaders in the battle for workers' rights. L.A. Story shatters many of the myths of modern labor with a close look at workers in four industries in Los Angeles: building maintenance, trucking, construction, and garment production. Though many blame deunionization and deteriorating working conditions on immigrants, Milkman shows that this conventional wisdom is wrong. Her analysis reveals that worsening work environments preceded the influx of foreign-born workers, who filled the positions only after native-born workers fled these suddenly undesirable jobs. Ironically, L.A. Story shows that immigrant workers, who many union leaders feared were incapable of being organized because of language constraints and fear of deportation, instead proved highly responsive to organizing efforts. As Milkman demonstrates, these mostly Latino workers came to their service jobs in the United States with a more group-oriented mentality than the American workers they replaced. Some also drew on experience in their native countries with labor and political struggles. This stock of fresh minds and new ideas, along with a physical distance from the east-coast centers of labor's old guard, made Los Angeles the center of a burgeoning workers' rights movement. Los Angeles' recent labor history highlights some of the key ingredients of the labor movement's resurgence--new leadership, latitude to experiment with organizing techniques, and a willingness to embrace both top-down and bottom-up strategies. L.A. Story's clear and thorough assessment of these developments points to an alternative, high-road national economic agenda that could provide workers with a way out of poverty and into the middle class.

Product Identifiers

Publisher

Russell SAGE Foundation

ISBN-10

0871546353

ISBN-13

9780871546357

eBay Product ID (ePID)

56964134

Product Key Features

Author

Ruth Milkman

Publication Name

L. A. Story : Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U. S. Labor Movement

Format

Trade Paperback

Language

English

Subject

Sociology / General, Emigration & Immigration, Labor

Publication Year

2006

Type

Textbook

Subject Area

Business & Economics, Social Science

Number of Pages

258 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length

9 in

Item Height

0.8 in

Item Width

6 in

Item Weight

14.1 Oz

Additional Product Features

LCCN

2006-043947

Lc Classification Number

Hd6490.O72u652 2006

Table of Content

(Chapter I 1ne "Wicked Citl: Labor and lLos Angeles SExceptioa ism 26 Cl pter '.1 TFnin g the Clock Back. nti-Un:on: Reaction the Return of the Sweatshop, amn the New Imnmig ation C hpter 3I Og iziniig the "Ulnganizab le" , i Immigrant n:ioiiiation and Labor Rexitali,zation in the i 9s i 114 Ch'iaptur "Sfi S Piede": Union Organizing Str ategies and nminn raint Workers 15 .t/, KA nt/ 'I Ing E piloeu" ald C oncuson n 1 7 lAppeiuix A Labor Ci lon MTIimbership in Los Anglets and Ljnimo Density in Los A g eles, Calitforniai and the nited S tates. :1, to 2j004: 1i09

2006

Target Audience

Scholarly & Professional

Dewey Decimal

331.8806/9120979494

Dewey Edition

Illustrated

Yes

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