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Jorge Bonilla is hospitalized with pneumonia from sleeping at the restaurant where he works, unable to afford rent on wages of thirty cents an hour. Domestic worker Yanira Juarez discovers she has labored for six months with no wages at all; her employer lied about establishing a savings account for her. We live in an era of the sweatshop reborn.
In 1992 Jennifer Gordon founded the Workplace Project to help immigrant workers in the underground suburban economy of Long Island, New York. In a story of gritty determination and surprising hope, she weaves together Latino immigrant life and legal activism to tell the unexpected tale of how the most vulnerable workers in society came together to demand fair wages, safe working conditions, and respect from employers. Immigrant workers--many undocumented--won a series of remarkable victories, including a raise of thirty percent for day laborers and a domestic workers' bill of rights. In the process, they transformed themselves into effective political participants.
Gordon neither ignores the obstacles faced by such grassroots organizations nor underestimates their very real potential for fundamental change. This revelatory work challenges widely held beliefs about the powerlessness of immigrant workers, what a union should be, and what constitutes effective lawyering. It opens up exciting new possibilities for labor organizing, community building, participatory democracy, legal strategies, and social justice.
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Suburban Sweatshops The Fight for Immigrant Rights [Jennifer Gordon] on . Jorge Bonilla is hospitalized with pneumonia from sleeping at the restaurant where he works, unable to afford rent on wages of thirty cents an hour. Domestic worker Yanira Juarez discovers she has labored for six months with no wages at all; her employer lied about establishing a savings account for her. We live in an era of the sweatshop reborn. In 1992 Jennifer Gordon founded the Workplace Project to help immigrant workers in the underground suburban economy of Long Island Jennifer Gordon,Suburban Sweatshops The Fight for Immigrant Rights,Belknap Press An Imprint of Harvard University Press,0674024044,Emigration Immigration,Labor Employment,Civil Rights,Jurisprudence general issues,LAW / Civil Rights,LAW / Labor Employment,Labor Industrial Relations - General,Law Civil Rights,Law Labor Employment,Law/Civil Rights,Law/Labor Employment,Non-Fiction,POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights,Political Science / Labor Industrial Relations,Politics / Current Events,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration Immigration,Social Science,Sociology,UNIVERSITY PRESS,United States
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