Transnational Tortillas : Race, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States /

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This book looks at the flip side of globalization: How does a company from the Global South behave differently when it also produces in the Global North? A Mexican tortilla company, "Tortimundo," has two production facilities within a hundred miles of each other, but on different sides of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bank Muñoz, Carolina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : ILR Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women > Employment.
Tortilla industry.
Industrial relations.
Foreign workers, Mexican.
Factory system.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Travailleurs etrangers mexicains > Californie.
Femmes > Travail > Mexique > Basse-Californie.
Relations industrielles > Californie.
Relations industrielles > Mexique > Basse-Californie.
Travail industriel > Californie.
Travail industriel > Mexique > Basse-Californie.
Tortillas > Industrie > Californie.
Tortillas > Industrie > Mexique > Basse-Californie.
Foreign workers, Mexican > California.
Women > Employment > Mexico > Baja California (Peninsula)
Industrial relations > California.
Industrial relations > Mexico > Baja California (Peninsula)
Factory system > California.
Factory system > Mexico > Baja California (Peninsula)
Tortilla industry > California.
Tortilla industry > Mexico > Baja California (Peninsula)
Mexico > Baja California (Peninsula)
California.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The tortilla behemoth and global production
  • The political economy of corn and tortillas
  • A tale of two countries : immigration policy and globalization in the United States and Mexico
  • Hacienda CA : immigration regime
  • Hacienda BC : gender regime
  • Fighting back? resistance in the age of neoliberalism
  • Shop-floor politics in the twenty-first century.

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