On the line : slaughterhouse lives and the making of the new South /

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"In this gutsy, eye-opening examination of the lives of workers in the New South, Vanesa Ribas, working alongside mostly Latino/a and native-born African American laborers for sixteen months, takes us inside the contemporary American slaughterhouse. Ribas, a native Spanish speaker, occupies an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ribas, Vanesa, 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Edición:First edition.
Temas:
Foreign workers > North Carolina > Social conditions.
Slaughtering and slaughter-houses > North Carolina > Employees > Social conditions.
African Americans > North Carolina > Social conditions.
Hispanic Americans > North Carolina > Social conditions.
Minorities > Employment > North Carolina.
Racism in the workplace > North Carolina.
Noirs américains > Caroline du Nord > Conditions sociales.
Américains d'origine latino-américaine > Caroline du Nord > Conditions sociales.
Minorités > Travail > Caroline du Nord.
Racisme en milieu de travail > Caroline du Nord.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Foreign workers > Social conditions.
Hispanic Americans > Social conditions.
Minorities > Employment.
Racism in the workplace.
North Carolina.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : lives on the line : carving out a new South
  • All roads lead from Olancho to Swine's : the making of a Latino working class in the American South
  • The meanings of moyo : the transnational roots of shop floor racial talk
  • "Painted black" : oppressive exploitation and racialized resentment
  • The value of being negro, the cost of being hispano : "disposability" and the challenges for cross-racial solidarity in the workplace
  • Black, white, and Latino bosses : how the composition of the authority structure mediates perceptions of privilege and the experience of subordination
  • Exclusion or ambivalence? : explaining African American's boundary work
  • Conclusion : prismatic engagement : Latino/a and African American workers' encounters in a Southern meatpacking plant.

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