Breaks in the Chain : What Immigrant Workers Can Teach America about Democracy /

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In Breaks in the Chain, Paul Apostolidis investigates the personal life stories of a group of Mexican immigrant meatpackers who are at once typical and extraordinary. After crossing the border clandestinely and navigating the treacherous world of the undocumented, they waged a campaign to democratiz...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Apostolidis, Paul, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Foreign workers > Political activity.
Foreign workers > Attitudes.
Emigration and immigration > Political aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
Foreign workers > Political activity > United States.
Foreign workers > United States > Attitudes.
United States.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Political aspects.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In Breaks in the Chain, Paul Apostolidis investigates the personal life stories of a group of Mexican immigrant meatpackers who are at once typical and extraordinary. After crossing the border clandestinely and navigating the treacherous world of the undocumented, they waged a campaign to democratize their union and their workplace in the most hazardous industry in the United States. Breaks in the Chain shows how immigrant workers-individually and sometimes collectively-both reinforce and contest a tacit but lethal form of biopolitics that differentiates the life chances of racial groups. Exa.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (360 pages).
ISBN:9780816674848

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