Affilia - Journal of Women and Social Work
Volume 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 254-271

"You have to do it for the people coming": Union organizing and the transformation of immigrant women workers (Article)

Chandler S.K.* , Jones J.
  • a School of Social Work, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557-0068, United States
  • b School of Social Work, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557-0068, United States

Abstract

This qualitative study explored the experiences of a group of women who migrated to the United States from Mexico and Central America, found employment in Nevada casinos, and eventually became active in the Hotel Employees, Restaurant Employees Union. Their stones chronicle both their journey and their transformation: the gradual giving way of initial hopelessness and despair to a sense of personal and collective political power. This study is part of a larger study of the experience of women casino workers in the context of economic globalization.

Author Keywords

Economic globalization immigrant women Labor unions Women workers

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-0042575597&doi=10.1177%2f0886109903251420&partnerID=40&md5=50f5c10568d5b89c4d52b858d75215a8
DOI: 10.1177/0886109903251420
ISSN: 08861099
Cited by: 7
Original Language: English