Unions, Immigration, and Internationalization: New Challenges and Changing Coalitions in the United States and France

by Leah Haus

Labor unions in France and the U.S. opposed certain restrictionist immigration policy measures in the late twentieth century, whereas they had pressured for restrictionism in the early twentieth century. Leah Haus asks why unions changed coalitions. Haus argues that one needs to focus on the challenges of internationalization to explain this change. Many union leaders consider economic internationalization and/or the internationalization of human...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312294948
• ISBN13: 9780312294946
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.6"