Mobilizing Against Inequality

Lee H. Adler teaches public sector collective bargaining and public education law at the ILR School at Cornell University and represents public sector unions throughout New York State. Maite Tapia is Assistant Professor at the School of Human Resources and Labor Relations at Michigan State University. Lowell Turner is Professor of International and Comparative Labor at the ILR School and Director of the Worker Institute at Cornell University. He is coeditor most recently of Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds and Rekindling the Movement, both from Cornell. Ana Avendaño is Assistant to the President and Director of Immigration and Community Action at the AFL-CIO.

"The immigrant workforce is both victimized as the most precarious element of the low-wage workforce and scapegoated by nativist and anti-immigrant elements as the cause of low wages and terrible working conditions. Through several case studies examining immigrant worker organizing in the United States and Europe, Mobilizing against Inequality provides vital insights into the importance of organizing the immigrant workforce and fully integrating immigrants into the general society as the best way to protect and improve wages and working conditions across the board. These insights can inform the debate in the United States at a time when immigration policy is under close examination and change is on the horizon."

• Foreword by Ana AvendañoAcknowledgmentsList of Acronyms and AbbreviationsPart I UNIONS AND THE MOBILIZATION OF IMMIGRANT WORKERS1. Organizing Immigrant Workers Lowell Turner 2. Union Campaigns as Countermovements: "Best Practice" Cases from the United Kingdom, France, and the United States Maite Tapia, Lowell Turner, and Denisse Roca-ServatPart II CASES AND NATIONAL CONTEXTS3. The United States: Tackling Inequality in Precarious Times Lee H. Adler and Daniel B. Cornfield 4. The United Kingdom: Dialectic Approaches to Organizing Immigrant Workers, Postwar to 2012 Maite Tapia5. France: Battles for Inclusion, 1968–2010 Lowell Turner6. Germany: Success at the Core, Unresolved Challenges at the Periphery Lee H. Adler and Michael FichterPart III COMPARISONS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS7. Opportunity and Choice for Unions Organizing Immigrant Workers: A Comparison across Countries and Industries Gabriella Alberti, Jane Holgate, and Lowell Turner 8. The Countermovement Needs a Movement (and a Counterstrategy) Janice Fine and Jane Holgate 9. Integrative Organizing in Polarized Times: Toward Dynamic Trade Unionism in the Global North Daniel B. Cornfield