Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat - 9780745692012

Immigrant Labor and the New PrecariatAuthor(s): Ruth Milkman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9780745692012, 978-0745692012\nSynopsis\nImmigration 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 thecauseof 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 aconsequenceof concerted employer efforts to weaken labor unions, along with neolibera.