Jennifer Gordon founded the Workplace Project in 1992, a

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worker center Worker centers are non-profit community-based mediating organizations that organize and provide support to communities of low wage workers who are not already members of a collective bargaining organization (such as a trade union) or have been lega ...

in Hempstead,

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, 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 the executive director of the Workplace Project from 1993 to 1998. Gordon was a

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from 1999 to 2004. She is the author of ''Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights'', as well as several articles on immigrants, politics, and labor unions. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from

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in 1987 and a Juris Doctor degree from

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in 1992. She is currently an associate professor at

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, where she teaches courses on immigration and labor law .

Bibliography

* "We Make the Road by Walking: Immigrant Workers and the Struggle for Social Change," Harvard Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review. Vol 30, pg. 407. 1995. *
Immigrants Fight the Power - Workers Centers are One Path to Labor Organizing and Political Participation
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. January 3, 2000.
American Sweatshops: Organizing workers in the Global Economy
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. 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." Pennsylvania Journal of Labor & Employment Law. Vol. 8, Pg 1. 2005. *''Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights''. Belknap/Harvard University Press. 2005. . *"Transnational Labor Citizenship." Southern California Law Review. Vol. 80, pg 503. 2007. *"Citizenship Talk: Bridging the Gap Between Race and Immigration Scholarship." (with R.A. Lenhardt). Fordham Law Review. Vol 75. pg 2493. 2007.

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