Resources

Academic Papers and Research Reports

Recent books on immigrant workers

  • David Bacon, The Right to Stay Home: How U.S. Policy Drives Mexican Migration, Beacon Press, 2013.
  • Pierre Barron, Anne Bory, Sébastien Chauvin, Nicolas Jounin, Lucie Tourette, On bosse ici, on reste ici! La grève des sans-papiers : une aventure inedited, Paris: La Découverte, 2011.
  • Maria Lorena Cook, The Politics of Labor Reform in Latin America: Between Flexibility and Rights, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006.
  • Janice Fine, Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream, EPI/ Cornell University Press, 2006.
  • Nilda Flores-Gonzalez, Immigrant Women Workers in the Neoliberal Age, Urbana: University of Illinois, 2013.
  • Ruben J. Garcia, Marginal Workers: How Legal Fault Lines Divide Workers and Leave Them without Protection, NYU Press, 2012.
  • Shannon Gleeson, Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston, ILR Press, 2012.
  • Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, Immigration and the Next America: Renewing the Soul of Our Nation, Our Sunday Visitor, 2013.
  • Rosemary Hennessy, Fires on the Border: The Passionate Politics of Labor Organizing on the Mexican Frontera, University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
  • Sarumathi Jayaraman and Immanuel Ness, New Urban Immigrant Workforce: Innovative Models for Labor Organizing, M E Sharpe Inc, 2005.
  • Stephanie Luce, Jennifer Luff, Joseph A. McCartin and Ruth Milkman, What Works for Workers?, Russell Sage Foundation, 2014.
  • Ruth Milkman and Ed Ott, New Labor in New York, Cornell University Press, 2014.
  • Ruth Milkman, Joshua Bloom and Victor Narro, Working for Justice: The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy, Cornell University Press, 2010.
  • Ruth Milkman, L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement, Russell Sage Foundation, 2006.
  • Ronaldo Muck, Carl-Ulrik Schierup & Raul D. Wise, Migration, Work and Citizenship in the New Global Order, Routledge, 2012.
  • Immanuel Ness, Immigrants, Unions, and the New U.S. Labor Market, Temple Press, 2005.
  • William A. Schwab, Right to DREAM, The University of Arkansas Press, 2013.
  • Lola Smallwood, Linda Delp and Kent Wong, Women's Work: Los Angeles Homecare Workers Revitalize the Labor Movement, UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education, 2009.
  • Kent Wong, The Undocumented and Unafraid: Tam Tran, Cinthya Felix and the Immigrant Youth Movement, UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education, 2012.