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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Apostolidis, Paul, 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
Foreign workers > United States > Attitudes.
Foreign workers > Political activity > United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Emigration and immigration > Political aspects.
Foreign workers > Attitudes.
Foreign workers > Political activity.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Political aspects.
United States.
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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.

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