It’s Not the Immigrants, It’s the Attack on US Workers

Name: It’s Not the Immigrants, It’s the Attack on US Workers by Tempest Tossed
Duration: 24 min 16 s
Description: According to a new book by Ruth Milkman, the frequently heard argument that immigrants undercut wages and conditions for US workers gets it exactly backwards: deteriorating wage levels and working conditions drive US workers from jobs that employers then seek to fill with immigrant labor. Professor Milkman joins Alex Aleinikoff for a discussion of Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat.

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Dec 3, 2020

According to a new book by Ruth Milkman, the frequently heard argument that immigrants undercut wages and conditions for US workers gets it exactly backwards: deteriorating wage levels and working conditions drive US wor…

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