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Apostolidis Paul <1965-> |
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Breaks in the chain [[electronic resource] ] : what immigrant workers can teach America about democracy / / Paul Apostolidis |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (340 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Foreign workers - United States - Attitudes |
Foreign workers - Political activity - United States |
United States Emigration and immigration Political aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 unioĢn! immigrant worker organizing and the disciplines of the law -- Immigrant workers and counterhegemony. |
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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 democratize their union and their workplace in the most hazardous industry in the United States. Breaks in the Chain shows how immigrant workers-individually and sometimes collectively-both reinforce and contest a tacit but lethal form of biopolitics that differentiates the life chances of racial groups. Exa |
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