Racial assumptions in global labor recruitment and supply

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Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 377-399

  Persaud, Randolph B ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 24944453691     PISSN: 03043754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030437540102600402     Document Type: Article

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1. Michael D. Shear and Lisa R. Washington, "Bill Would Let Fairfax Limit Sleep to Bedrooms: Va. Senate Passes Legislation that Critics Say Unfairly Targets Crowded Immigration Homes," Washington Post, January 27, 2001, A1.
2. Robert W. Cox draws a distinction between those nonestablished workers who are employed in "small private enterprises" and those working in "big industry in semiskilled jobs." See R. W. Cox, Production, Power, and World Order (New York: Columbia UP, 1987), pp. 55-63.
3. In September 1991, for example, a fire at Imperial Foods, a chicken-processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina, killed twenty-five workers and injured more than fifty. Investigators found a long list of safety violations, including emergency exits that failed to open. For a penetrating analysis of this accident, see David Harvey, Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Difference (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1996), pp. 334-346.
4. "Why Use Cumberland Labor?" http://www.cumberlandlabor.com/why. htm
5. Houston Chronicle, August 30, 1998;
6. cited in "Research, Reports, and Polls: Industrial Temps," http://www.laborresearch.org/ind_temps/big_thing. html
7. I would like to thank Stephen R. Gill for suggesting that these practices might best be seen in terms of a spot market.
8. According to its website, "Odco is the outcome of Australian High Court rulings involving actions between the union the BWIU and the business Odco Pty Ltd and the Victorian Workers Compensation Authority and Odco Pty Ltd Generically. The court cases became known as the Odco Judgements and so the word has been applied to describe the system"; see http:// www.odco.com.
9. Quoted in John Scoble, Hill Coolies: A Brief Exposure of the Deplorable Condition of the Hill Coolie in British Guiana and Mauritius (London: Harvey & Darton, 1840), p. 4.
10. Hill Coolies: A Brief Exposure of the Deplorable Condition of the Hill Coolie in British Guiana and Mauritius Ibid., p. 5.
11. Ronald Takaki, A Different Mirror (Boston: Little, Brown, 1993), pp. 67-68.
12. Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White (New York: Routledge, 1995), p. 38.
13. How the Irish Became White Ibid., p. 38.
14. How the Irish Became White Ibid., p. 39.
15. Takaki, note 10, p. 149.
16. Matthew F. Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color (London: Harvard UP, 1998), p. 48.
17. See Mark Rupert, Producing Hegemony (Cambridge: Cambridge UP), 1995.
18. Demetrios G. Papademetriou and Kimberly A. Hamilton, Reinventing Japan: Immigration's Role in Shaping Japan's Future (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2000), p. 5.
19. Won Bae Kim, "Sub-Regional Economic Integration and Labour Migration in East Asia," in OECD, Migration and Regional Economic Integration in Asia (Paris: OECD, 1998), p. 33.
20. Medium-sized manufacturing firms in Japan are increasingly reliant, as a matter of economic competitiveness, on foreign contract labor. The bulk of the foreign labor supply to Japan is from Korea, China, Brazil, and the Philippines.
21. New York Times, April 9, 1998.
22. Harvey Simmons, The French National Front: The Extremist Challenge to Democracy (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1996), p. 147.
23. James F. Hollifield, "Immigration and Republicanism in France: The Hidden Consensus," in Wayne A. Cornelius, P. L. Martin, and J. F. Hollifield, Controlling Immigration: A Global Perspective (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1994), p. 146.
24. There were in fact groups such as the populationnistes who explicitly pushed for the "ethnic selection" of immigrants; see Hollifield, Controlling Immigration: A Global Perspective ibid., p. 148.
25. Simmons, note 21, p. 149.
26. Ibid., p. 152.
27. Ibid.
28. Anna Marie Smith, New Right Discourse on Race and Sexuality: Britain, 1968-1990 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994).
29. Simmons, note 21, p. 267.
30. Martin A. Lee, The Beast Reawakens: Fascism's Resurgence from Hitler's Spymasters to Today's Neo-Nazi Groups and Right-Wing Extremists (London: Routledge, 2000), p. 269.
31. Philip L. Martin, "Germany: Reluctant Land of Immigration," in Cornelius, Martin, and Hollifield, note 22, p. 192.
32. Lee, note 29, p. 270.
33. Martin, note 30, p. 192.
34. Ibid., p. 202.
35. Washington Post, August 5, 2000.
36. See Randolph B. Persaud and Clarence Lusane, "The New Economy, Globalisation, and the Impact on African Americans," Race and Class 42, no. 1 (2000): 21-34.
37. U.S. Government, Migratory Labor in American Agriculture: A Report of the U.S. President's Commission on Migratory Labor (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1951), p. 78.