Immigration and American Unionism
ISBN: 9781501722318
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Alien labor -- United States; United States -- Emigration and immigration; Labor unions -- United States;

In the year 2000 the AFL-CIO announced a historic change in its position on immigration. Reversing a decades-old stance by labor, the federation declared that it would no longer press to reduce high immigration levels or call for rigorous enforcement...

Vernon M. Briggs Jr. is Professor of Labor Economics at the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. Among his many books is Mass Immigration and the National Interest .


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