Jennifer Gordon

{{Short description|American activist}} {{about||the American author|Jennifer Anne Gordon}} {{Infobox person | image =  | image_size = | name = Jennifer Gordon | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | known_for = Founding the Workplace Project | occupation = Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law }} '''Jennifer Gordon''' founded the Workplace Project in 1992, a non-profit worker center in Hempstead, New York, 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 MacArthur Fellow 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 Radcliffe College of Harvard University in 1987 and a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School in 1992. She is currently an associate professor at Fordham University School of Law, where she teaches courses on immigration and labor law .<ref name="Jennifer Gordon">{{cite web| title = Jennifer Gordon| url = http://law.fordham.edu/ihtml/fac-2bioPP.ihtml?id=507&bid=840| work = Fordham Law School| access-date = December 13, 2007| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070916010427/http://law.fordham.edu/ihtml/fac-2bioPP.ihtml?id=507&bid=840| archive-date = September 16, 2007}}</ref>

==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. * "[https://web.archive.org/web/20070311021127/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb1367/is_200001/ai_n6386787 Immigrants Fight the Power - Workers Centers are One Path to Labor Organizing and Political Participation]," The Nation. January 3, 2000. *"[http://bostonreview.net/BR30.3/gordon.html American Sweatshops: Organizing workers in the Global Economy]." Boston Review. 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. {{ISBN|0-674-01524-X}}. *"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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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070916010427/http://law.fordham.edu/ihtml/fac-2bioPP.ihtml?id=507&bid=840 Fordham Law faculty bio]

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