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Jennifer Gordon

Jennifer Gordon is the founder and former executive director of the Workplace Project, on Long Island, and an associate professor at Fordham University School of Law. Portions of this article are adapted from her book Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights, published earlier this year by Harvard University Press.

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Organizing workers in the global economy.
Jennifer Gordon

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I share Owen Fiss’s concern about legislation denying immigrants basic benefits, but I propose a different solution. Almost all the disabilities that concern Fiss are imposed by the states. Why not simply...
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