Immigrant and Migrant Workers Organizing in Canada and the United - Casework and Campaigns in a Neoliberal Era

Informationen zum Autor Jorge Frozzini is professor in the Department of Arts and Letters at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi and researcher at the Laboratory for Research on Intercultural Relations.Alexandra Law is teacher at Dawson College and member of the Inter-University and Interdisciplinary Research Group of Employment, Poverty, and Social Protection (GIREPS). Klappentext In this book, Jorge Frozzini and Alexandra Law examine how immigrant workers organize in the United States and Canada. Frozzini and Law highlight workers' efforts to challenge their hyper-precarious living conditions and public perceptions of their experiences through the use of casework, coalition-building, and other tactics. Zusammenfassung In this book, Jorge Frozzini and Alexandra Law examine how immigrant workers organize in the United States and Canada. Frozzini and Law highlight workers’ efforts to challenge their hyper-precarious living conditions and public perceptions of their experiences through the use of casework, coalition-building, and other tactics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Interdisciplinarity: On the Importance of Law, Communication Studies and Chapter 2: (I)mmigrant Workers and the Union Movement: Legal and Historical Chapter 3: Global PrecarityChapter 4: Casework as an Organizing TacticChapter 5: Campaigns and Strategies in the United States and Canada: Examples from the Literature

Product details

• Authors: Jorge Frozzini, Jorge Law Frozzini, Alexandra Law, Law Alexandra
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781498518123
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-1812-3
• No. of pages: 172
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Canada, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, North America, HISTORY / North America, HISTORY / Canada / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Social and cultural anthropology, History of the Americas, North America (USA and Canada)