Immigration and American Unionism
In the year 2000 the AFL-CIO announced a historic change in its position on immigration. Reversing a decades-old stance by labor, the federation declared that it would no longer press to reduce high immigration levels or call for rigorous enforcement of immigration laws. Instead, it now supports the repeal of sanctions imposed against employers who hire illegal immigrants as well as a general amnesty for most such workers. In this timely book, Vernon M. Briggs, Jr., challenges labor's recent about-face, charting the disastrous effects that immigration has had on union membership over the course of U.S. history.Briggs explores the close relati…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8014-8710-1
- EAN: 9780801487101
- Produktnummer: 1636918
- Verlag: Cornell University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.3 cm 330 g
- Abbildungen: 24 tables; 1 chart
- Gewicht: 330
- Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)
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