The Chicken Trail : Following Workers, Migrants, and Corporations Across the Americas /

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In The Chicken Trail, Kathleen C. Schwartzman examines the impact of globalization-and of NAFTA in particular-on the North American poultry industry, focusing on the displacement of African American workers in the southeast United States and workers in Mexico. Schwartzman documents how the transform...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schwartzman, Kathleen Crowley, 1948- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Unemployment.
Foreign workers, Mexican.
Emigration and immigration.
Commerce.
Chicken industry.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Travailleurs etrangers mexicains > États-Unis.
Poulets > Industrie > Mexique.
Poulets > Industrie > États-Unis.
Unemployment > Mexico.
Unemployment > United States.
Foreign workers, Mexican > United States.
Chicken industry > Mexico.
Chicken industry > United States.
United States.
Mexico.
États-Unis > Commerce > Mexique.
Mexico > Commerce > United States.
United States > Commerce > Mexico.
Mexico > Emigration and immigration.
United States > Emigration and immigration.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Why follow chickens?
  • Ethnic succession in the south
  • Where have all the workers gone?
  • Taylorism invades the hen house
  • Solving industry crises : pollos y polleros
  • Squeezing out Mexican chicken
  • Voice : squawking at globalization
  • Exit Mexico : si muero lejos de ti
  • The global dilemma : summary and reflections.

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