The Border at Work: Undocumented Workers, the ILGWU in Los Angeles, and the Limits of Labor Citizenship

TOBIAS HIGBIE is a professor of history and Labor Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He has served as chair of Labor Studies and director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at UCLA. Higbie is the author of Labor's Mind: An Intellectual History of the Working Class (2019); Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880–1930 (2003); and articles on migration, print culture, working-class education, and robots.

GASPAR RIVERA-SALGADO is a project director at the UCLA Labor Center, the director of the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies, and core faculty in the UCLA Labor Studies program. He has extensive experience as an independent consultant on transnational migration, race and ethnic relations, and diversity training for large organizations. He is the coauthor (with S. Camacho) of “Lost in Translation en el Fil: Actualizing Cultural Humility for Indigenous Mexican Farmworkers in California”; (with J. Fox) “Mexican Migrant Civil Society: Propositions for Discussion”; (with E. Telles and M. Sawyer) Just Neighbors? Research on African American and Latino Relations in the United States (2011); and (with J. Fox) Indigenous Mexican Migration in the United States (2005).