Session: Migrant Workers, Labour Unions and Collective Protests (The Second ISA Forum of Sociology (August 1-4, 2012))

21 Migrant Workers, Labour Unions and Collective Protests

Wednesday, August 1, 2012: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM

OB 29 (Faculty of Economics)

RC44 Labor Movements (host committee)

Session Organizer:

Jennifer CHUN, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada

21.1

Part of the working class? The cost of depoliticization for union legitimacy among migrant workers in China
Eli FRIEDMAN, Cornell University, USA

21.2

Foreign workers in the atomic disaster: A type of exclusion in Japan
Nobuyuki YAMADA, Komazawa University, Japan

21.3

Labour mobility from Estonia to Finland in the construction sector: Different stakeholder perspectives and strategies
Rolle ALHO, University of Turku, Finland

21.4

Fighting for inclusion: The origins and consequences of the 2006 immigration protests in the United States
Kim VOSS, University of California, Berkeley, USA

21.5

Immigrant workers' paths of resistance: Institutionalized industrial relations or open class conflict?
Alexandru DICEANU, McMaster University, Canada

21.6

Migrant farm workers fight back: Reconceptualizing resistance at the margins
Evelyn ENCALADA GREZ, Human Rights & Equity Studies, Canada

21.7

Displacing immigrant workers through Canada's guest worker program
Geraldina POLANCO, The University of British Columbia, Canada

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