# Jennifer Gordon

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{{Short description|American activist}}
{{about||the American author|Jennifer Anne Gordon}}
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'''Jennifer Gordon''' founded the [Workplace Project](/source/Workplace_Project) in 1992, a [non-profit](/source/non-profit_organization) [worker center](/source/worker_center) in [Hempstead](/source/Hempstead_(village)%2C_New_York), [New York](/source/New_York_(state)), 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](/source/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](/source/Radcliffe_College) of [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University) in 1987 and a Juris Doctor degree from [Harvard Law School](/source/Harvard_Law_School) in 1992.  She is currently an associate professor at [Fordham University School of Law](/source/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](/source/The_Nation). January 3, 2000.
*"[http://bostonreview.net/BR30.3/gordon.html American Sweatshops: Organizing workers in the Global Economy]." [Boston Review](/source/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.

==References==
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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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