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Autore: | Apostolidis Paul <1965-> |
Titolo: | Breaks in the chain [[electronic resource] ] : what immigrant workers can teach America about democracy / / Paul Apostolidis |
Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (340 p.) |
Disciplina: | 323.3/29120973 |
Soggetto topico: | Foreign workers - United States - Attitudes |
Foreign workers - Political activity - United States | |
Soggetto geografico: | United States Emigration and immigration Political aspects |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Breaks in the chain |
ISBN: | 0-8166-7484-1 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910460014203321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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