Ruth Milkman is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center and Academic Director of the Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies. She served as President of the American Sociological Association in 2016.
Introduction
1 Brown-Collar Jobs: Low-Wage Immigrant Workers in the 21st Century
2 Immigration and Labor in Historical Perspective
3 The Eclipse of the New Deal: Labor Degradation, Union Decline, and Immigrant Workers
4 Growing Inequality and Immigrant Employment in Paid Domestic Labor and Service Industry Jobs
5 Immigrant Labor Organizing and Advocacy in the Neoliberal Era
Conclusion