Scratching Out a Living : Latinos, Race, and Work in the Deep South /

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"What does globalization look like in the rural South? Scratching Out a Living takes readers deep into Mississippi's chicken processing communities and workplaces, where large numbers of Latin American migrants began arriving in the mid-1990s to labor alongside an established African Ameri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Stuesse, Angela, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Race relations.
Industrial relations.
African Americans > Social conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Hispanic American Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Relations industrielles > Mississippi.
Noirs americains > Mississippi > Conditions sociales.
Travailleurs etrangers latino-americains > Mississippi > Conditions sociales.
Poulets > Industrie > Mississippi > Conditions sociales.
Industrial relations > Mississippi.
African Americans > Mississippi > Social conditions.
Foreign workers, Latin American > Mississippi > Social conditions.
Chicken industry > Mississippi > Social conditions.
Mississippi.
Mississippi > Relations raciales.
Mississippi > Race relations.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Southern fried: globalization and immigrant transformations
  • Dixie chicken: racial segregation, poultry integration, and the making of the "new" South in central Mississippi
  • The caged bird sings for freedom: black struggles for civil and labor rights, 1950-1980
  • ?.?. to get to the other side: the Hispanic project and the rise of the Nuevo South
  • Pecking order: Latino newcomers, receptions, and racial hierarchies
  • A bone to pick: labor control and the painful work of chicken processing
  • Sticking our necks out: challenges to union and workers' center organizing
  • Walking on eggshells: illegality, employer sanctions, and disposable workers
  • Plucked: labor contractors and immigrant exclusion
  • Flying upwind: toward a new Southern solidarity
  • Postscript: home to roost: reflections on activist research.

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