Unions, Immigration, and Internationalization: New Challenges and Changing Coalitions in the United States and France (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780312294946)

Labor unions in France and the U.S. opposed certain restrictionist immigration policy measures in the late twentieth century, whereas they had pressured for restrictionism in the early twentieth century. Leah Haus asks why unions changed coalitions. Haus argues that one needs to focus on the challenges of internationalization to explain this change. Many union leaders consider economic internationalization and/or the internationalization of human rights as undermining the effectiveness and/or desirability of certain restrictionist measures. At the same time, many union leaders see support for certain non-restrictionist measures as a way to facilitate organizing immigrants, which is an alternative strategy for improving wages and work conditions.

Author: L. Haus
ISBN-10: 0312294948
ISBN-13: 9780312294946
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 09/17/2002
Pages: 219
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.56h x 5.92w x 0.73d