Book Description
Tells the story of Chinese immigrants to the United States, discussing how these individuals illegally enter the country and the poor working conditions they face in their new home
Author : Peter Kwong
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Page : 273 pages
File Size : 16,10 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781565843554
Tells the story of Chinese immigrants to the United States, discussing how these individuals illegally enter the country and the poor working conditions they face in their new home
Author : Martin Gold
Publisher : The Capitol Net Inc
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 40,27 MB
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1587332353
"Described as 'one of the most vulgar forms of barbarism, ' by Rep. John Kasson (R-IA) in 1882, a series of laws passed by the United States Congress between 1879 and 1943 resulted in prohibiting the Chinese as a people from becoming U.S. citizens. Forbidden citizens recounts this long and shameful legislative history"--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Lewis H. Siegelbaum
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,36 MB
Release : 1995-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791424865
This is an oral and local history of the coal mining town of Donetsk in the Ukraine. The workers describe their changing political and economic goals and their reaction to Western culture, the rising tides of nationalism and religion.
Author : Immanuel Ness
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 21,22 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0252093372
Political scientist Immanuel Ness thoroughly investigates the use of guest workers in the United States, the largest recipient of migrant labor in the world. Ness argues that the use of migrant labor is increasing in importance and represents despotic practices calculated by key U.S. business leaders in the global economy to lower labor costs and expand profits under the guise of filling a shortage of labor for substandard or scarce skilled jobs. Drawing on ethnographic field research, government data, and other sources, Ness shows how worker migration and guest worker programs weaken the power of labor in both sending and receiving countries. His in-depth case studies of the rapid expansion of technology and industrial workers from India and hospitality workers from Jamaica reveal how these programs expose guest workers to employers' abuses and class tensions in their home countries while decreasing jobs for American workers and undermining U.S. organized labor. Where other studies of labor migration focus on undocumented immigrant labor and contend immigrants fill jobs that others do not want, this is the first to truly advance understanding of the role of migrant labor in the transformation of the working class in the early twenty-first century. Questioning why global capitalists must rely on migrant workers for economic sustenance, Ness rejects the notion that temporary workers enthusiastically go to the United States for low-paying jobs. Instead, he asserts the motivations for improving living standards in the United States are greatly exaggerated by the media and details the ways organized labor ought to be protecting the interests of American and guest workers in the United States.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
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Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,51 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Labor laws and legislation
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Page : 616 pages
File Size : 18,25 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Labor unions
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Includes separately paged "Junior union section."
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Page : 1150 pages
File Size : 41,19 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Labor unions
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Page : 120 pages
File Size : 16,18 MB
Release : 1963-02
Category : Labor laws and legislation
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Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.
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Page : 892 pages
File Size : 20,21 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Shoemakers
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Page : 944 pages
File Size : 49,37 MB
Release : 1929
Category : Labor
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