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Undocumented - How Immigration Became Illegal (Paperback): Aviva Chomsky Undocumented - How Immigration Became Illegal (Paperback)
Aviva Chomsky
R405 R360 Discovery Miles 3 600 Save R45 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Explores what it means to be undocumented in a legal, social, economic and historical context
In this illuminating work, immigrant rights activist Aviva Chomsky shows how "illegality" and "undocumentedness" are concepts that were created to exclude and exploit. With a focus on US policy, she probes how people, especially Mexican and Central Americans, have been assigned this status--and to what ends. Blending history with human drama, Chomsky explores what it means to be undocumented in a legal, social, economic, and historical context. The result is a powerful testament of the complex, contradictory, and ever-shifting nature of status in America.

Organizing for Power - Building a 21st Century Labor Movement in Boston (Paperback): Aviva Chomsky, Steve Striffler Organizing for Power - Building a 21st Century Labor Movement in Boston (Paperback)
Aviva Chomsky, Steve Striffler
R579 Discovery Miles 5 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Boston 's economy has become defined by a disconcerting trend that has intensified throughout much of the United States since the 2008 recession. Economic growth now delivers remarkably few benefits to large sectors of the working class -- a phenomenon that is particularly severe for immigrants, people of color, and women. Organizing for Power explores this nation-wide phenomenon of "unshared growth" by focusing on Boston, a city that is famously liberal, relatively wealthy, and increasingly difficult for working people (who service the city 's needs) to actually live in. Organizing for Power is the only comprehensive analysis of labor and popular mobilizing in Boston today, the volume contributes to a growing body of academic and popular literature that examines urban America, racial and economic inequality, labor and immigration, and the right-wing assault on working people.

The Cuba Reader - History, Culture, Politics (Hardcover, Second Edition, Revised and Updated): Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr,... The Cuba Reader - History, Culture, Politics (Hardcover, Second Edition, Revised and Updated)
Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr, Alfredo Prieto, Pamela Maria Smorkaloff
R2,829 Discovery Miles 28 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Tracking Cuban history from 1492 to the present, The Cuba Reader includes more than one hundred selections that present myriad perspectives on Cuba's history, culture, and politics. The volume foregrounds the experience of Cubans from all walks of life, including slaves, prostitutes, doctors, activists, and historians. Combining songs, poetry, fiction, journalism, political speeches, and many other types of documents, this revised and updated second edition of The Cuba Reader contains over twenty new selections that explore the changes and continuities in Cuba since Fidel Castro stepped down from power in 2006. For students, travelers, and all those who want to know more about the island nation just ninety miles south of Florida, The Cuba Reader is an invaluable introduction.

Nos Quitan Nuestros Trabajos! - y 20 mitos mas sobre la immigracion (Spanish) (Paperback): Aviva Chomsky Nos Quitan Nuestros Trabajos! - y 20 mitos mas sobre la immigracion (Spanish) (Paperback)
Aviva Chomsky
R525 Discovery Miles 5 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A timely and accessible guide which debunks the 21 biggest myths and stereotypes in today's heated immigration debate, written by one of the leading and longest-running human rights activists. Claims that immigrants take jobs away from nationals, are a drain on the economy, contribute to poverty and inequality and destroy the social fabric of a country are openly discussed and debated at all levels of society. Chomsky dismantles the most common assumptions and misconceptions, challenging untruths in a clear and straightforward argument.

Is Science Enough? - Forty Critical Questions About Climate Justice (Paperback): Aviva Chomsky Is Science Enough? - Forty Critical Questions About Climate Justice (Paperback)
Aviva Chomsky
R428 R388 Discovery Miles 3 880 Save R40 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Central America's Forgotten History - Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration (Paperback): Aviva Chomsky Central America's Forgotten History - Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration (Paperback)
Aviva Chomsky
R428 R380 Discovery Miles 3 800 Save R48 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Organizing for Power - Building a 21st Century Labor Movement in Boston (Hardcover): Aviva Chomsky, Steve Striffler Organizing for Power - Building a 21st Century Labor Movement in Boston (Hardcover)
Aviva Chomsky, Steve Striffler
R1,229 Discovery Miles 12 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Boston's economy has become defined by a disconcerting trend that has intensified throughout much of the United States since the 2008 recession. Economic growth now delivers remarkably few benefits to large sectors of the working class - a phenomenon that is particularly severe for immigrants, people of color, and women. Labor in 21st Century Boston explores this nation-wide phenomenon of "unshared growth" by focusing on Boston, a city that is famously liberal, relatively wealthy, and increasingly difficult for working people (who service the city's needs) to actually live in. Labor in 21st Century Boston is the only comprehensive analysis of labor and popular mobilizing in Boston today, the volume contributes to a growing body of academic and popular literature that examines urban America, racial and economic inequality, labor and immigration, and the right-wing assault on working people.

They Take Our Jobs! - and 20 Other Myths about Immigration (Paperback): Aviva Chomsky They Take Our Jobs! - and 20 Other Myths about Immigration (Paperback)
Aviva Chomsky
R487 R442 Discovery Miles 4 420 Save R45 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Linked Labor Histories - New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class (Paperback): Aviva Chomsky Linked Labor Histories - New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class (Paperback)
Aviva Chomsky
R860 Discovery Miles 8 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Exploring globalization from a labor history perspective, Aviva Chomsky provides historically grounded analyses of migration, labor-management collaboration, and the mobility of capital. She illuminates the dynamics of these movements through case studies set mostly in New England and Colombia. Taken together, the case studies offer an intricate portrait of two regions, their industries and workers, and the myriad links between them over the long twentieth century, as well as a new way to conceptualize globalization as a long-term process.Chomsky examines labor and management at two early-twentieth-century Massachusetts factories: one that transformed the global textile industry by exporting looms around the world, and another that was the site of a model program of labor-management collaboration in the 1920s. She follows the path of the textile industry from New England, first to the U.S. South, and then to Puerto Rico, Japan, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and Colombia. She considers how towns in Rhode Island and Massachusetts began to import Colombian workers as they struggled to keep their remaining textile factories going. Most of the workers eventually landed in service jobs: cleaning houses, caring for elders, washing dishes. Focusing on Colombia between the 1960s and the present, Chomsky looks at the Uraba banana export region, where violence against organized labor has been particularly acute, and, through a discussion of the AFL-CIO's activities in Colombia, she explores the thorny question of U.S. union involvement in foreign policy. In the 1980s, two U.S. coal mining companies began to shift their operations to Colombia, where they opened two of the largest open-pit coal mines in the world. Chomsky assesses how different groups, especially labor unions in both countries, were affected. Linked Labor Histories suggests that economic integration among regions often exacerbates regional inequalities rather than ameliorating them.

Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State - The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean... Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State - The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean (Paperback, New)
Aviva Chomsky, Aldo A. Lauria Santiago
R1,109 Discovery Miles 11 090 Ships in 10 - 17 working days

Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State brings together new research on the social history of Central America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Aviva Chomsky and Aldo A. Lauria Santiago have gathered both well-known and emerging scholars to demonstrate how the actions and ideas of rural workers, peasants, migrants, and women formed an integral part of the growth of the export economies of the era and to examine the underacknowledged impact such groups had on the shaping of national histories. Responding to the fact that the more common, elite-centered "national" histories distort or erase the importance of gender, race, ethnicity, popular consciousness, and identity, contributors to this volume correct this imbalance by moving these previously overlooked issues to the center of historical research and analysis. In so doing, they describe how these marginalized working peoples of the Hispanic Caribbean Basin managed to remain centered on not only class-based issues but on a sense of community, a desire for dignity, and a struggle for access to resources. Individual essays include discussions of plantation justice in Guatemala, highland Indians in Nicaragua, the effects of foreign corporations in Costa Rica, coffee production in El Salvador, banana workers in Honduras, sexuality and working-class feminism in Puerto Rico, the Cuban sugar industry, agrarian reform in the Dominican Republic, and finally, potential directions for future research and historiography on Central America and the Caribbean. This collection will have a wide audience among Caribbeanists and Central Americanists, as well as students of gender studies, and labor, social, Latin American, and agrarian history. Contributors. Patricia Alvarenga, Barry Carr, Julie A. Charlip, Aviva Chomsky, Dario Euraque, Eileen Findlay, Cindy Forster, Jeffrey L. Gould, Lowell Gudmundson, Aldo A. Lauria Santiago, Francisco Scarano, Richard Turits

The Cuba Reader - History, Culture, Politics (Paperback, Second Edition, Revised and Updated): Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr,... The Cuba Reader - History, Culture, Politics (Paperback, Second Edition, Revised and Updated)
Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr, Alfredo Prieto, Pamela Maria Smorkaloff
R865 R774 Discovery Miles 7 740 Save R91 (11%) Ships in 10 - 17 working days

Tracking Cuban history from 1492 to the present, The Cuba Reader includes more than one hundred selections that present myriad perspectives on Cuba's history, culture, and politics. The volume foregrounds the experience of Cubans from all walks of life, including slaves, prostitutes, doctors, activists, and historians. Combining songs, poetry, fiction, journalism, political speeches, and many other types of documents, this revised and updated second edition of The Cuba Reader contains over twenty new selections that explore the changes and continuities in Cuba since Fidel Castro stepped down from power in 2006. For students, travelers, and all those who want to know more about the island nation just ninety miles south of Florida, The Cuba Reader is an invaluable introduction.

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