Forbidden Workers
Title | Forbidden Workers PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Kwong |
Publisher | |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | 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
Forbidden Citizens
Title | Forbidden Citizens PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Gold |
Publisher | The Capitol Net Inc |
Pages | 618 |
Release | 2011-12-01 |
Genre | 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.
American Federationist
Title | American Federationist PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1150 |
Release | 1914 |
Genre | Labor unions |
ISBN |
The American Federationist
Title | The American Federationist PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 616 |
Release | 1914 |
Genre | Labor unions |
ISBN |
Includes separately paged "Junior union section."
Workers of the Donbass Speak
Title | Workers of the Donbass Speak PDF eBook |
Author | Lewis H. Siegelbaum |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 1995-07-01 |
Genre | 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.
Void where Prohibited
Title | Void where Prohibited PDF eBook |
Author | Marc Linder |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN |
Although federal and state regulations require employers to provide toilets, government agencies, incredibly, do not require employers to permit workers to use them. Marc Linder, a labor lawyer and political economist, and Ingrid Nygaard, a physician specializing in urogynecology, place this regulatory breakdown in the wider context of the history of labor-management struggles over rest periods. They emphasize the physiological consequences that workers suffer when they are not allowed to interrupt work to rest or urinate. Linder and Nygaard explain how protective rest period legislation has shrunk over time. Ironically, because most statutes singled out women for rest breaks, they were invalidated by Title VII's ban on sex discrimination. The authors explain other countries' regulations and conclude with a recommendation for legislation to mandate rest and bathroom breaks for all workers.
Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism
Title | Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism PDF eBook |
Author | Immanuel Ness |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2011-09-01 |
Genre | 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.