Breaks in the chain : what immigrant workers can teach America about democracy /
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...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2010.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Immigration, power, and politics in America today
- Political narratives, common sense, and theories of hegemony
- Hegemony in hindsight : immigrant workers' stories of power in Mexico
- Stories of fate and agency in the zone of illegality
- Labor, injury, and self-preservation in the slaughterhouse
- ¡Nosotros somos la unión! Immigrant worker organizing and the disciplines of the law
- Immigrant workers and counterhegemony.