Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism
Publisher： University of Illinois Press
Publication year： 2011
E-ISBN: 9780252093371
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780252036279
Subject： D5 World Politics;F2 Economic Planning and Management
Keyword： 经济计划与管理,世界政治
Language： ENG
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Description
Political scientist Immanuel Ness thoroughly investigates the use of guest workers in the United States, the largest recipient of migrant labor in the world. Ness argues that the use of migrant labor is increasing in importance and represents despotic practices calculated by key U.S. business leaders in the global economy to lower labor costs and expand profits under the guise of filling a shortage of labor for substandard or scarce skilled jobs. _x000B_Drawing on ethnographic field research, government data, and other sources, Ness shows how worker migration and guest worker programs weaken the power of labor in both sending and receiving countries. His in-depth case studies of the rapid expansion of technology and industrial workers from India and hospitality workers from Jamaica reveal how these programs expose guest workers to employers' abuses and class tensions in their home countries while decreasing jobs for American workers and undermining U.S. organized labor. _x000B_
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