Importing outside labor to extraction zones prevents local civic and union organizing

Evidence

Multinational oil corporations, seeking a pliable workforce, prefer to import laborers from rival communities or distant lands rather than create jobs for communities most immediately affected by extraction operations. This practice, in turn, impedes labor unions and civic organizations from developing—organizations that could mesh the workplace with the priorities of neighboring communities, whose ostensible resource wealth has reduced them (from the perspective of fossil fuel authoritarians and their partners, the oil majors) to disposable people. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 193

Categorization

• XREF: Chains to earlier claims on fast vs slow causes and on extractors treating locals as expendable under environmental racism. — connects to: Labor contracts legitimize subcontracting while failing to guarantee migrant safety or legal status — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 26; Legal migrants can be rendered illegal to make them disposable labor — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 655

Broader Connections

• Legal migrants can be rendered illegal to make them disposable labor #expands (0.80) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 655
• Labor contracts legitimize subcontracting while failing to guarantee migrant safety or legal status #qualifies (0.75) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 26