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IRCA and the Unionization of Mexican and Central American Undocumented Workers in Los Angeles County

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  • Hector L. Delgado

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This article explores the likely impact of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) on the unionization o f undocumented workers. Research conducted prior to IRCA challenges the conventional wisdom that undocumented workers cannot be organized because of their fear of apprehension and deportation by the INS. Preliminary research subsequent to the passage of this legislation in 1986 suggests that essentially the same factors that mitigated the fear of the INS and made the undocumenteds as receptive to unionization as other classes of workers similarly located in the labor market prior to IRCA are operating in the post‐IRCA period. The future “organizability” of undocumented workers rests considerably on unions’determination to organize them and whether they continue to be protected by U.S. labor laws.

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  • Hector L. Delgado, 1992. "IRCA and the Unionization of Mexican and Central American Undocumented Workers in Los Angeles County," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 11(2), pages 131-142, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:revpol:v:11:y:1992:i:2:p:131-142
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.1992.tb00396.x
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