02861nam 2200577Ia 450 991078520130332120230725024631.00-8166-7484-1(CKB)2670000000037625(EBL)565763(OCoLC)659579826(SSID)ssj0000413151(PQKBManifestationID)11268606(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000413151(PQKBWorkID)10381897(PQKB)11349762(MiAaPQ)EBC565763(MdBmJHUP)muse29870(Au-PeEL)EBL565763(CaPaEBR)ebr10408644(CaONFJC)MIL525711(EXLCZ)99267000000003762520100331d2010 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBreaks in the chain[electronic resource] what immigrant workers can teach America about democracy /Paul ApostolidisMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20101 online resource (340 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-6982-1 0-8166-6981-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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. ExaForeign workersUnited StatesAttitudesForeign workersPolitical activityUnited StatesUnited StatesEmigration and immigrationPolitical aspectsForeign workersAttitudes.Foreign workersPolitical activity323.3/29120973Apostolidis Paul1965-1427711MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785201303321Breaks in the chain3813865UNINA