Union by law Filipino American labor activists, rights radicalism, and racial capitalism
"Michael McCann and George Lovell offer a history of Filipino salmon cannery workers in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, focusing on their experiences with law, union organizing, and progressive politics over the course of the 20th century. Coming to this country after the American conquest of...
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Chicago ; London
The University of Chicago Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Chicago series in law and society.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. American Capitalist Expansion, Colonialism, and Empire
- Prologue to Part I. The American colonial project in the Philippines
- Chapter 1. Filipino migration to the metropole : Racism, resistance, and rights
- Chapter 2. A cannery workers' union by law : The formative years
- Chapter 3. Rights radicalism amid "restrictive" law : The war years
- Part II. Challenging Empire : Transpacific Rights Radicalism
- Prologue to Part II. The Cold War Era : Global empire, the rise of Marcos, and civil rights
- Chapter 4. LELO, ACWA, and the politics of radical rights mobilization
- Chapter 5. The trials of tragedy : Turning anguish into anger
- Chapter 6. 'Wards Cove v. Atonio' : The execution of "good" civil rights law
- Conclusion : Theorizing law and legal mobilization in racial capitalist empire
- Appendix : Official legal texts.