Recent lerf_rw items

Inter-provincial Permanent and Temporary Migration in China

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Inter-provincial Permanent and Temporary Migration in China

Increasing Immigrant and Farmworker Education at UC Davis

Thu, 7 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Increasing Immigrant and Farmworker Education at UC Davis

Agriculture, Farm Labor, and Rural Communities in California in the 21st Century

Thu, 7 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Agriculture, Farm Labor, and Rural Communities in California in the 21st Century

California Rural Communities, Farm worker Settlement and Citizenship Practices

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

This research project was developed following the program determined in its initial proposal, i.e., the research activities were undertaken as it was planned. In general terms they consisted in what is described below.

This project questioned the degree the settlement process could constitute a condition that furthers farmworkers’ citizenship practices, framing opportunities for participation in rural community’s political and civil institutions. In order to address this main question I initiated my research pursuing the following objectives:

to identify political and civil institutions, as well as public arenas by which people, in this case farmworkers, make claims to community membership, forcing the inclusion of their agendas and concerns;

to assess the extent and scope to which local political and civil institutions include farmworker agendas and concerns.

to determine how the settlement of farmworkers affects notions of local membership and...

The Use of Language and Culture: Does Speaking a Non-English

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Abstract

Using the 5% IPUMS version of the 2000 Census, this paper finds that, compared to another

immigrant who has a job that requires less human-interaction on a daily basis, an immigrant

worker who possesses knowledge in speaking a non-English language and who works in a humaninteraction-

intensive occupation would enjoy an average wage benefit of 4.28%. Also, for those

who work at a job that values language usage and cultural familiarity, immigrants from the

same country of origin are perceived as substitutes, while those from another country would be

complements, a finding that is in accordance with the standard labor supply theory, holding

demand constant. Moreover, a one standard deviation increase in bilateral trade volume between

the United States and the immigrant’s country of origin is predicted to enhance the immigrant’s

returns to working in the Wholesale Trade industry by 3.36% on average, a pattern...

Farm Workers and Unions in California Agriculture

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

This $10,000 grant supported three major activates:

1. a conference that discussed the interactions of unions and immigration in California agriculture

2. scanning and posting collective bargaining agreements signed in CA agriculture (http://digital.dev.lib.ucdavis.edu/projects/ufw/) and

3. coverage of farm labor and immigration issues in Rural Migration News (http://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn).

Intimate Labors

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Over fifty scholars—researchers from all the UC campuses with Women’s Studies programs, professors from major Ivy League and state universities, and participants from Canada, Britain, Korea, and South Africa—came to UCSB for a three day conference on “Intimate Labor” the first weekend of October. In conjunction with the conference, Eileen Boris, the co-organizer, held a first-year seminar; the fifteen students from the seminar attended the sessions; so did graduate students and faculty from UCSB and other campuses (particularly UCLA and UCB) who were not on the program, as well as the general public for the opening keynote on Thursday evening and some plenary sessions. Overall attendance averaged 80 per plenary and keynote session, with the first two sessions—Thursday open keynote to the public hitting around a hundred persons and Friday morning keynote/first panel, over hundred to overflow into the corridors the McCune Conference room at the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center,...

Immigration Policy, Labor Market Regulation and the Welfare State: A Comprehensive Look at Immigrant Labor Market Integration in Germany, Great Britain, the United States and Canada

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

As of 2005, 5.2% of the native born population in Germany reports a foreign born parent. A majority of “second generation” immigrants are in their early twenties to early forties, and thus represent an increasingly large proportion of the German labor force (Statistiches Bundesamt 2007). The second generation stems disproportionately from lower class backgrounds, and it represents the largest native born “foreign” population in German history. The fate of the second generation is a subject of intense concern amongst policy makers, and the fear that the second generation will develop into a socially marginalized Unterschichtung (underclass) looms large in German politics and the popular media. The question of whether the second generation will experience academic and labor market success provides a test for models of intergenerational mobility and assimilation theories.

The second generation in Germany stems from several different migration streams with diverse socioeconomic...

The Worker Center Movement and Traditional Labor Laws:

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

A new crop of worker advocacy organizations has grown up in the last decade, and has coalesced into an organizational form known as the “worker center.” Just as worker centers have tended to shy away from utilizing NLRB processes to protect worker rights, the status of worker centers under the NLRA has remained cloudy and subject to debate. Specifically, the NLRB and the courts have not addressed whether organizations like worker centers, which seek to improve the lot of employees in marginal industries but in most cases do not aspire to negotiate with their employers, are statutory labor organizations. As the ROC-NY example indicates, worker centers that use aggressive tactics that constrain employer prerogatives will inevitably face employer-initiated litigation seeking to restrict their activities, invoking the various restrictions of the NLRA that hinge upon the “labor organization” definition. In this paper, I explain how the Act’s protections can be utilized by worker...

Organizing Home Care: Low-Waged Workers in the Welfare State

Wed, 8 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Unionization of home care has depended on the state location of the occupation. Government social policies and funding created home care, shaping the structure of the industry and the conditions of work. The welfare nexus, linking old age, disability, health, and welfare policies, however, also transformed care hidden in the home into a public service. Through case studies of California and Oregon, leaders in deinstitutionalizing care of the elderly and disabled, we explore the social struggles that forced the state to recognize its invisible workforce. The home location of personal attendants and other health aides has entailed not only organizing challenges but policy innovation as well. Using the welfare state location of the labor, workers allied with consumers to develop the public authority as a newstructure of representation. The history of home care shows that social welfare and health policy have long been entangled with labor policy.

The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor

Wed, 8 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor