Ness, Immanuel.

Guest workers and resistance to U.S. corporate despotism /Immanuel Ness. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2011. - 1 online resource. - The working class in American history .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Migration and class struggle -- Political economy of migrant labor in US history: fabricating a migration policy for business -- India's global and internal labor migration and resistance: a case study of Hyderabad -- Temporary labor migration and U.S. and foreign-born worker resistance -- The migration of low-wage Jamaican guest workers -- Who can organize? Trade unions, worker insurgency, labor power.

Exposing the corporate structures behind exploitative migrant labor programs.



9780252093371 9781283292931

2019717401

015846069 Uk


Foreign workers--United States.
Labor market--United States.


Electronic Books.

HD8081 / .G847 2011