Jennifer Gordon
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jennifer Gordon founded the Workplace Project in 1992, a non-profit worker center in Hempstead, New York, which organizes immigrant workers, mostly from Central and South America. The Workplace Project lobbied for and won a strong wage enforcement law in New York state. Gordon was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1999. She is the author of Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights (ISBN 0-674-01524-X). She received a bachelor of arts degree from Radcliffe College of Harvard University in 1987 and a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School in 1992. She is currently an associate professor at Fordham University School of Law, where she teaches courses on immigration and labor law.
[edit] Bibliography
- "We Make the Road by Walking: Immigrant Workers and the Struggle for Social Change," 30 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 407 (1995).
- "Immigrants Fight the Power - - Workers centers are one path to labor organizing and political participation," The Nation, January 3, 2000.
- "American Sweatshops: Organizing workers in the global economy," Boston Review, Summer 2005.
- "Law, Lawyers and Labor: The United Farm Workers’ Legal Strategy in the 1960s and 1970s and the Role of Law in Union Organizing Today," 8 Penn J. Labor & Emp. Law 1 (2005).
- Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights (2005) (ISBN 0-674-01524-X).
[edit] External link
 |
This American law-related biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
