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Author Vosko, Leah F., author.

Title Disrupting deportability : transnational workers organize / Leah F. Vosko.

Publication Info. Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2019.
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 173 pages) : illustrations
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "Explores the effects of deportability--a social condition characterized by the possibility of removal--on the exercise of labor rights amongst temporary migrant workers--primarily Mexican nationals engaged in Canada's model Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP)--struggling to organize, bargain collectively and sustain bargaining units"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Tables and Figures -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Deportability among Temporary Migrant Workers: An Essential Condition of Possibility for Migration Management -- 2. Getting Organized: Countering Termination without Just Cause through Certification -- 3. Maintaining a Bargaining Unit of Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) Employees: The Challenge of Blacklisting -- 4. Sustaining Bargaining Unit Strength: The Specter of Attrition -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Appendix: Tables -- Bibliography -- Index
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Subject Foreign workers, Mexican -- Civil rights -- Canada.
Foreign workers, Mexican.
Civil rights.
Canada.
Agricultural laborers, Foreign -- British Columbia.
Agricultural laborers, Foreign.
British Columbia.
Foreign workers -- Labor unions -- Organizing -- British Columbia.
Foreign workers -- Labor unions -- Organizing.
Foreign workers.
Deportation -- British Columbia.
Deportation.
Precarious employment -- British Columbia.
Precarious employment.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Vosko, Leah F. Disrupting deportability. Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2019 9781501742132 (DLC) 2019020873
ISBN 9781501742163 (electronic book)
1501742167 (electronic book)
9781501742156 (electronic book)
1501742159 (electronic book)
9781501742132 (hardcover)
9781501742149 (paperback)

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