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 the American Political Science Association Latin@/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, is available to read and download online for free.