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Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat (Hardcover)
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Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat (Hardcover)
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Immigration has been a contentious issue for decades, but in the
twenty-first century it has moved to center stage, propelled by an
immigrant threat narrative that blames foreign-born workers, and
especially the undocumented, for the collapsing living standards of
American workers. According to that narrative, if immigration were
summarily curtailed, border security established, and ""illegal
aliens"" removed, the American Dream would be restored. In this
book, Ruth Milkman demonstrates that immigration is not the cause
of economic precarity and growing inequality, as Trump and other
promoters of the immigrant threat narrative claim. Rather, the
influx of low-wage immigrants since the 1970s was a consequence of
concerted employer efforts to weaken labor unions, along with
neoliberal policies fostering outsourcing, deregulation, and
skyrocketing inequality. These dynamics have remained largely
invisible to the public. The justifiable anger of US-born workers
whose jobs have been eliminated or degraded has been tragically
misdirected, with even some liberal voices recently advocating
immigration restriction. This provocative book argues that
progressives should instead challenge right-wing populism,
redirecting workers' anger toward employers and political elites,
demanding upgraded jobs for foreign-born and US-born workers alike,
along with public policies to reduce inequality.
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