HISTORY / IMMIGRATION STUDIES / POLITICS THE POLITICS OF IMMIGRANT WORKERS Labor Activism and Migration in the World Economy since 1830 edited by Camille Guerin-Gonzales and Carl Strikwerda Revised Edition

The new edition takes into account recent changes in migration since the fall of the Soviet bloc and the unification of Germany. Current developments in Europe brought forth by the European Union's attempts at increasing mobility between countries and in Japan, where the government was forced to permit greater immigration, are also discussed.
The contributors examine in greater detail the role of unfree labor in the worldwide spread of capitalism in the nineteenth century. New historical, sociological, and economic research on labor markets and ethnic groups is for the first time synthesized in this new edition. Table of Contents Foreword by David Brody Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Labor, Migration, and Politics — Carl Stikwerda and Camille Guerin-Gonzales European Migrants in the United States 2. The German Bakers of New York City: Between Ethnic Particularism and Working-Class Consciousness — Dorothee Schneider 3. Labour Party, Labor Lobbying, or Direct Action? Coal Miners, Immigrants, and Radical Politics in Scotland and the American Midwest, 1880-1924 — John H. Laslett Migration Within Europe in the 19th Century 4. France and the Beligan Immigration of the 19th Century — Carl Strikwerda 5. Scapegoating the Foreign Worker: Job Turnover, Accidents, and Diseases among Polish Coal Miners in the German Ruhr, 1871-1914 — John J. Kulczycki Latin American and Asian Migration to the United States 6. The International Migration of Workers and Segmented Labor: Mexican Immigrant Workers in California Industrial Agriculture, 1900-1940 — Camille Guerin-Gonzales 7. Class, Ethnicity, and the Transformation of Hawaii's Sugar Workers, 1920-1946 — Ruth Akamine Asian Migrants in African and in Asia 8. Indentured Labor Migration: Indian Migrants to Natal, South Africa, 1860-1902 — Surendra Bhana 9. Popular Sources of Chinese Labor Militancy in Colonial Malaya, 1900-1941 — Donald M. Nonini Migration in Twentieth-Century Europe 10. The Politics of Immigrant Workers in Twentieth-Century France — Donald Reid 11. Foreigners in the Fatherland: Turkish Immigrant Workers in Germany — Ruth Mandel An International Perspective 12. Insiders and Outsiders: The Political Economy of International Migration during the Nineteeth and Twentieth Centuries — James Foreman-Peck "This is a very useful book ... The contributions in this volume provide much-needed historical perspective on the increasingly important and controversial migration issue." —Journal of Economic History "Guerin-Gonzales and Strikwerda have put together a book that places the issue of immigrant workers in a global perspective. It is a valuable resource for anyone dealing with immigrant issues. ...By understanding the commonalities of the immigrant-worker experience, we can help break down barriers to unity and organizing. The authors show how the world economy and the state dictate migration history; it is not that people are slipping across borders to work for pennies, it is state policy that provides low-wage workers for a segmented labor market." —Albert Vetere Lannon, Labor Studies Journal Camille Guerin-Gonzales teaches at the Cesar Chavez Center at UCLA. Her writing has focused on immigrant labor in California and Colorado. Carl Strikwerda is associate professor of history and chair of European Studies at the University of Kansas. He writes on Belgian, French, and comparative European labor history.
368 pp. • index • ISBN 0-8419-1298-x • $20.00 (paper)

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