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- Advance Praise for The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Labor Law Is Out of Date
- Part III The “Fissured” Workplace
- Part IV Barriers to Forming a Collective Bargaining Relationship
- Part V Barriers to Bargaining a Good Contract
- 22 Obtaining a First Contract after Winning Recognition
- 23 Advancing Global Labor Standards
- 24 Organizing for Workplace Rights When Immigration Law Discourages It
- 25 The Central Role of the Right to Strike
- 26 Organizational Power for Workers within the Firm
- 27 Returning Members-Only Collective Bargaining to the American Workplace
- Part VI Unions, Civil Society, and Culture
24 - Organizing for Workplace Rights When Immigration Law Discourages It
from Part V - Barriers to Bargaining a Good Contract
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 November 2019
- Advance Praise for The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Labor Law Is Out of Date
- Part III The “Fissured” Workplace
- Part IV Barriers to Forming a Collective Bargaining Relationship
- Part V Barriers to Bargaining a Good Contract
- 22 Obtaining a First Contract after Winning Recognition
- 23 Advancing Global Labor Standards
- 24 Organizing for Workplace Rights When Immigration Law Discourages It
- 25 The Central Role of the Right to Strike
- 26 Organizational Power for Workers within the Firm
- 27 Returning Members-Only Collective Bargaining to the American Workplace
- Part VI Unions, Civil Society, and Culture
Summary
A premise of this book is that labor union organizing must be revived, especially in industries where unions have little or no traction. In this chapter I step back and consider how immigration law makes organizing particularly difficult in some fields. I do not simply describe the structural problems. My thesis is that the problems of organizing in the immigrant workplace provide direction for the corresponding solutions. Innovative collective activity can occur in the immigrant workplace despite the failings of federal labor and employment laws, but workers must broaden their collective action to challenge immigration laws that effectively restrict concerted activity. This effort will succeed only by enlisting state and local governments to exercise their authority to ensure the well-being of all workers within their jurisdictions.
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