"For several decades, wealthy states, international development agencies, and multinational corporations have encouraged labour migration from the Global South to the Global North. As well as providing essential workers to support the transformation of advanced economies, the remittances...

Migration and class struggle -- Political economy of migrant labor in US history: fabricating a migration policy for business -- India's global and internal labor migration and resistance: a case study of Hyderabad -- Temporary labor migration and U.S. and foreign-born worker resistance -- The...

The site of industrial struggle is shifting. The West needs to look further if it wants to understand how workers' self-organization is developing in countries it too often ignores. Across the Global South, peasant communities are forced off the land to live and work in harsh and impoverished...

Introduction -- Socio-economics and conflict in sending remittances from New York City's unstable labour markets to Peru / Alex Julca -- Driving taxis in New York City : who wants to do it? / Diditi Mitra -- Organizing greengrocery workers in New York City / Immanuel Ness -- Models of worker...

Editors and contributors -- Topic finder -- Introduction to the Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History / Aaron Brenner -- Types of strikes / Aaron Brenner -- List of abbreviations -- Strikes: theory and practice -- Introduction / Aaron Brenner -- Strikes in American history / Aaron Brenner...