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.

Foreword by Ana Avendaño

Acknowledgments

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations

Part I UNIONS AND THE MOBILIZATION OF IMMIGRANT WORKERS

1. 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-Servat

Part II CASES AND NATIONAL CONTEXTS

3. 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 Tapia

5. France: Battles for Inclusion, 1968–2010 Lowell Turner

6. Germany: Success at the Core, Unresolved Challenges at the Periphery Lee H. Adler and Michael Fichter

Part III COMPARISONS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS

7. 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