Janitors, street vendors, and activists : the lives of Mexican immigrants in Silicon Valley /

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This highly accessible, engagingly written book exposes the underbelly of California's Silicon Valley, the most successful high-technology region in the world, in a vivid ethnographic study of Mexican immigrants employed in Silicon Valley's low-wage jobs.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Zlolniski, Christian (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Mexicans > Employment > California > Santa Clara County > Santa Clara Valley.
Foreign workers, Mexican > California > Santa Clara County > Santa Clara Valley.
Unskilled labor > California > Santa Clara County > Santa Clara Valley.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Foreign workers, Mexican
Mexicans > Employment
Unskilled labor
California > Santa Clara County
america.
california economy.
california.
community politics.
economic analysis.
ethnographers.
ethnographic study.
globalism.
immigrant experience.
janitors.
labor policies.
labor politics.
labor practices.
latino immigrants.
low wage jobs.
mexican americans.
mexican immigrants.
mexico.
nonfiction study.
regional study.
silicon valley.
social activists.
street vendors.
subcontracting.
technological developments.
united states.
us economy.
working conditions.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Mexican immigrants in Silicon Valley
  • The subcontracting of Mexican janitors in the high-tech industry
  • Working in the informal economy
  • Mexican families in Santech
  • Community politics in the barrio
  • Conclusion : subproletarians in a postindustrial economy.

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