Guest worker, flexible accumulation and racism: notes on the work of migrants in the United States in twenty-first century

Abstract

This article aims to highlight some of the major influences on union structureand the work that emerged in the wake of productive restructuring and globalization ofproduction. The possibility of outsourcing of production and the changes made in its control,more and more glued to the movements of high finance, opened spaces for the dispersion ofproduction. In this international movement, immigrants are unprotected and subject to theconditions of a transnational market work. We describe the case of the United States, whereresistance movement has been started.