09/04/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 09/04/2024 07:34
Shannon Gleeson, the ILR School's Edmund Ezra Day Professor, and co-author Xóchitl Bada of the University of Illinois Chicago have won the 2024 Best Book Award by theAmerican Political Science AssociationLatin@/x Caucus.
"Scaling Migrant Worker Rights: How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power " was published by University of California Press (2023).
Gleeson will accept the award on Friday at the 2024 American Political Science Association meeting in Philadelphia.
Teaching faculty in Latina/o Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences and a professor in the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, Gleeson is the chair of ILR's Department of Global Labor and Work. Bada is a professor in the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago.
The book, described here, isavailable to read and download online for free.