What's "justice and dignity" got to do with it?: Migrant vulnerability, corporate complicity, and the state

Human Organization

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 19-30

  Stuesse, Angela C ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Employer sanctions; Immigration; Labor control; Neoliberalism; Poultry industry

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; EMPLOYMENT; IMMIGRATION; MIGRANT WORKER; NEOLIBERALISM; POLICY MAKING; SOCIAL SECURITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77951496446     PISSN: 00187259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17730/humo.69.1.886106412v421152     Document Type: Article

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