Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston

Abstract

After years of researching and writing this book, the process of account-ing for all the people who have helped me reach this point seems the most daunting. I will do my best. The seeds of this book were planted over a decade ago in O’Connor Hall at Santa Clara University. My mentors at SCU, especially Marilyn Fernandez, Chuck Powers, and Laura Nichols, sparked my sociologi-cal imagination and have supported me every step of the way since. My committee members in the Departments of Sociology and Demography at UC Berkeley helped lay the foundation for this research.