LEADER 05647nam 2201069 450 001 9910808604703321 005 20210505212420.0 010 $a0-520-95882-9 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520958821 035 $a(CKB)3710000000513404 035 $a(EBL)4068975 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001632256 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16383958 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001632256 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14948970 035 $a(PQKB)10348654 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001535518 035 $a(DE-B1597)520113 035 $a(OCoLC)1058335097 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520958821 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4068975 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11153301 035 $a(OCoLC)940518593 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4068975 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000513404 100 $a20160216h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnnu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOn the line $eslaughterhouse lives and the making of the new South /$fVanesa Ribas 210 1$aOakland, California :$cUniversity of California Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (297 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-28296-5 311 $a0-520-28295-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Illustrations --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. Introduction. Lives on the Line: Carving Out a New South --$t2. All Roads Lead From Olancho to Swine's: The Making of a Latino/A Working Class in the American South --$t3. The Meanings of Moyo: The Transnational Roots of Shop-Floor Racial Talk --$t4. "Painted Black": Oppressive Exploitation and Racialized Resentment --$t5. The Value of Being Negro, the Cost of Being Hispano: Disposability and the Challenges for Cross-Racial Solidarity in the Workplace --$t6. Black, White, and Latino/A Bosses: How the Composition of the Authority Structure Mediates Perceptions of Privilege and the Experience of Subordination --$t7. Exclusion or Ambivalence?: Explaining African Americans' Boundary-Work --$t8. Conclusion. Prismatic Engagement: Latino/a and African American Workers' Encounters in a Southern Meatpacking Plant --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $a"How does one put into words the rage that workers feel when supervisors threaten to replace them with workers who will not go to the bathroom in the course of a fourteen-hour day of hard labor, even if it means wetting themselves on the line?"-From the Preface In this gutsy, eye-opening examination of the lives of workers in the New South, Vanesa Ribas, working alongside mostly Latino/a and native-born African American laborers for sixteen months, takes us inside the contemporary American slaughterhouse. Ribas, a native Spanish speaker, occupies an insider/outsider status there, enabling her to capture vividly the oppressive exploitation experienced by her fellow workers. She showcases the particular vulnerabilities faced by immigrant workers-a constant looming threat of deportation, reluctance to seek medical attention, and family separation-as she also illuminates how workers find connection and moments of pleasure during their grueling shifts.  Bringing to the fore the words, ideas, and struggles of the workers themselves, On The Line underlines how deep racial tensions permeate the factory, as an overwhelmingly minority workforce is subject to white dominance. Compulsively readable, this extraordinary ethnography makes a powerful case for greater labor protection, especially for our nation's most vulnerable workers. 606 $aForeign workers$zNorth Carolina$xSocial conditions 606 $aSlaughtering and slaughter-houses$zNorth Carolina$xEmployees$xSocial conditions 606 $aAfrican Americans$zNorth Carolina$xSocial conditions 606 $aHispanic Americans$zNorth Carolina$xSocial conditions 606 $aMinorities$xEmployment$zNorth Carolina 606 $aRacism in the workplace$zNorth Carolina 610 $aafrican american. 610 $aamerican worker. 610 $acontemporary american slaughterhouse. 610 $acorporate america. 610 $adeportation threats. 610 $aethnographic research. 610 $aexploitation. 610 $afactory work. 610 $afactory. 610 $afamily separation. 610 $ahard labor. 610 $aimmigrant workers. 610 $ainsider outsider status. 610 $alabor protection. 610 $alabor studies. 610 $alabor. 610 $alatina workers. 610 $alatino workers. 610 $amedical attention. 610 $amigrant workers. 610 $aminority workforce. 610 $anative born americans. 610 $anew south. 610 $aracial tensions. 610 $aslaughterhouse. 610 $astruggles. 610 $aunited states of america. 610 $awhite dominance. 610 $aworkers rights. 610 $aworkers. 615 0$aForeign workers$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aSlaughtering and slaughter-houses$xEmployees$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aHispanic Americans$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aMinorities$xEmployment 615 0$aRacism in the workplace 676 $a331.6/209756 700 $aRibas$b Vanesa$f1979-$01684829 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808604703321 996 $aOn the line$94056489 997 $aUNINA