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Introduction Introduction
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Restriction versus Solidarity and the Post-war National Policy Debates Restriction versus Solidarity and the Post-war National Policy Debates
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Debates and policy shifts in the United States Debates and policy shifts in the United States
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The United Kingdom within the context of the EU The United Kingdom within the context of the EU
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Unions Organizing with Migrant Workers Unions Organizing with Migrant Workers
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Varieties of union engagement with migrant workers and migrant worker organizations Varieties of union engagement with migrant workers and migrant worker organizations
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Research Research
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Education Education
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Policy intervention Policy intervention
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Organizing Organizing
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Global alliance-building, bi-national networks, and leveraging the support of global institutions Global alliance-building, bi-national networks, and leveraging the support of global institutions
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Factors Contributing to Unions’ Willingness to Include Migrant Workers Factors Contributing to Unions’ Willingness to Include Migrant Workers
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Changes in the structure and composition of the labour market and labour unions Changes in the structure and composition of the labour market and labour unions
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Shifts in immigration flows Shifts in immigration flows
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Dynamics of state capacity and state/labour union relationships Dynamics of state capacity and state/labour union relationships
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Changing racial and ethnic attitudes toward immigrants Changing racial and ethnic attitudes toward immigrants
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Union identity Union identity
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Global links Global links
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Conclusion Conclusion
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4 Migrant Workers and Labour Movements in the US and UK
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Published:April 2014
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Abstract
Immigration has always posed difficult choices for unions that fight to defend the rights and labour market positions of workers who, globalization notwithstanding, still live and work in individual nation-states. Historically, unions have vacillated between supporting restrictive state immigration policies and championing more open ones. Likewise they have vacillated between blocking migrants from becoming members and actively organizing and representing them. This chapter reviews contemporary policy debates in the US and UK and summarizes the major policy shifts made by the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations and the Trades Union Congress, post-World War II. It then catalogues efforts made by unions in support of migrant workers and explores factors that contribute to a union’s willingness to include, organize and represent migrant workers.
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