Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism
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- Paperback
232 pages
- Release Date
14 September 2011
Summary
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 resear…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780252078170 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0252078179 |
| Series: | Working Class in American History |
| Author: | Immanuel Ness |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press |
| Imprint: | University of Illinois Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 14 September 2011 |
| Weight: | 367g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 20mm |
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“The topics of guest worker programs, internal and international labor migration, and worker organizing are fundamental to understanding today’s economy and labor market. Immanuel Ness’s argument that business is actively involved in creating the notion of labor shortages while pushing programs to meet their interests is a crucial addition to the immigration policy debate.” Stephanie Luce, author of Fighting for a Living Wage
About The Author
Immanuel Ness
Immanuel Ness is a professor of political science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He is the author of Real World Labor and Immigrants, Unions, and the U.S. Labor Market.
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