1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779664803321

Autore

Schwartzman Kathleen Crowley <1948->

Titolo

The chicken trail [[electronic resource] ] : following workers, migrants, and corporations across the Americas / / Kathleen C. Schwartzman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, : ILR Press, 2013

ISBN

0-8014-6804-3

0-8014-5116-7

0-8014-6805-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

338.1/76500973

Soggetti

Chicken industry - United States

Chicken industry - Mexico

Foreign workers, Mexican - United States

Unemployment - United States

Unemployment - Mexico

United States Emigration and immigration

Mexico Emigration and immigration

United States Commerce Mexico

Mexico Commerce United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 transformation of U.S. poultry production in the 1980's increased its export capacity and changed the nature and consequences of labor conflict. She documents how



globalization-and NAFTA in particular-forced Mexico to open its commodity and capital markets, and eliminate state support of corporations and rural smallholders. As a consequence, many Mexicans were forced to abandon their no longer sustainable small farms, with some seeking work in industrialized poultry factories north of the border. By following this chicken trail, Schwartzman breaks through the deadlocked immigration debate, highlighting the broader economic and political contexts of immigration flows. The narrative that undocumented worker take jobs that Americans don't want to do is too simplistic. Schwartzman argues instead that illegal immigration is better understood as a labor story in which the hiring of undocumented workers is part of a management response to the crises of profit making and labor-management conflict. By placing the poultry industry at the center of a constellation of competing individual, corporate, and national interests and such factors as national debt, free trade, economic development, industrial restructuring, and African American unemployment, The Chicken Trail makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the implications of globalization for labor and how the externalities of free trade and neoliberalism become the social problems of nations and the tragedies of individuals.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910813266503321

Autore

Nouwen Sarah M. H.

Titolo

Complementarity in the line of fire : the catalysing effect of the international criminal court in Uganda and Sudan / / Sarah M.H. Nouwen [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-43917-5

1-107-42393-7

1-107-42181-0

1-107-41914-X

1-107-41643-4

1-107-42039-3

0-511-86326-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 505 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in law and society

Classificazione

LAW051000

Disciplina

341/.04

Soggetti

Complementarity (International law)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Complementarity from the line of fire -- The Rome Statute : complementarity in its legal context -- Uganda : compromising complementarity -- Sudan : complementarity in a state of denial -- Paradoxes unravelled : explanations for complementarity's weak catalysing effect on domestic proceedings -- Complementarity in the line of fire.

Sommario/riassunto

Of the many expectations attending the creation of the first permanent International Criminal Court, the greatest has been that the principle of complementarity would catalyse national investigations and prosecutions of conflict-related crimes and lead to the reform of domestic justice systems. Sarah Nouwen explores whether complementarity has had such an effect in two states subject to ICC intervention: Uganda and Sudan. Drawing on extensive empirical research and combining law, legal anthropology and political economy, she unveils several effects and outlines the catalysts for them. However, she also reveals that one widely anticipated effect - an increase in



domestic proceedings for conflict-related crimes - has barely occurred. This finding leads to the unravelling of paradoxes that go right to the heart of the functioning of an idealistic Court in a world of real constraints.