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Record Nr.

UNINA9910140335403321

Titolo

ALCTS newsletter online

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, IL, : Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, American Library Association, ©1998-

ISSN

1523-018X

Disciplina

020

Soggetti

Technical services (Libraries)

Cataloging

Information retrieval

Library science

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Title from journal homepage.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910815951403321

Autore

Zlolniski Christian

Titolo

Janitors, street vendors, and activists [[electronic resource] ] : the lives of Mexican immigrants in Silicon Valley / / Christian Zlolniski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006

ISBN

9786612772009

0-520-93917-4

1-282-77200-7

1-4237-4553-1

1-59875-927-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Disciplina

331.6/272079473

Soggetti

Mexicans - Employment - California - Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County)

Foreign workers, Mexican - California - Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County)

Unskilled labor - California - Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Mexican Immigrants in Silicon Valley -- 2. The Subcontracting of Mexican Janitors in the High-Tech Industry -- 3. Working in the Informal Economy -- 4. Mexican Families in Santech -- 5. Community Politics in the Barrio -- Conclusion: Subproletarians in a Postindustrial Economy -- Epilogue: After the Dot-Com Demise -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This highly accessible, engagingly written book exposes the underbelly of California's Silicon Valley, the most successful high-technology region in the world, in a vivid ethnographic study of Mexican immigrants employed in Silicon Valley's low-wage jobs. Christian Zlolniski's on-the-ground investigation demonstrates how global forces have incorporated these workers as an integral part of the economy through subcontracting and other flexible labor practices and explores how these labor practices have in turn affected working



conditions and workers' daily lives. In Zlolniski's analysis, these immigrants do not emerge merely as victims of a harsh economy; despite the obstacles they face, they are transforming labor and community politics, infusing new blood into labor unions, and challenging exclusionary notions of civic and political membership. This richly textured and complex portrait of one community opens a window onto the future of Mexican and other Latino immigrants in the new U.S. economy.