{"product_id":"the-border-crossed-us-by-justin-akers-chacn-9781642594607","title":"The Border Crossed Us","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe aggressive exploitation of labour on both sides of the US-Mexico border has become a prominent feature of capitalism in North America. Kids in cages, violent ICE raids, and anti-immigrant racist rhetoric characterise our political reality and are shaping how people intersect at the US-Mexico border every day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs activist-scholar Justin Akers Chacón carefully demonstrates, however, this vicious model of capitalist transnationalisation has also created its own grave-diggers. Migrant workers have been at the forefront of class struggle in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis timely book, \u003cem\u003eThe Border Crossed Us\u003c\/em\u003e, persuasively argues that labour and migrant solidarity movements are already showing how and why, in order to fight for justice and rebuild the international union movement, we must open the border.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47432827666668,"sku":"9781642594607","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781642594607.jpg?v=1774766345","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-border-crossed-us-by-justin-akers-chacn-9781642594607","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}