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Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston

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Description for Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 6, 2 tables, 4 charts. BIC Classification: JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 399.

In Conflicting Commitments, Shannon Gleeson goes beyond the debate over federal immigration policy to examine the complicated terrain of immigrant worker rights. Federal law requires that basic labor standards apply to all workers, yet this principle clashes with increasingly restrictive immigration laws and creates a confusing bureaucratic terrain for local policymakers and labor advocates. Gleeson examines this issue in two of the largest immigrant gateways in the country: San Jose, California, and Houston, Texas.

Conflicting Commitments reveals two cities with very different approaches to addressing the exploitation of immigrant workers —both involving the strategic coordination of a range of ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
398g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780801478147
SKU
V9780801478147
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About Shannon Gleeson
Shannon Gleeson is Associate Professor in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University.

Reviews for Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston
Gleeson captivates her readers with an in-depth, intricate, and diligent ethnographic approach to the question of labor rights enforcement for undocumented immigrants in the United States... She reaffirms the hands-on approach to investigating the discrepancy between rights in theory and rights in practice by being present at official meetings, being a scrupulous reader of county council minutes, and partaking in ... Read more

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