Breaks in the chain [[electronic resource] ] : what immigrant workers can teach America about democracy / / Paul Apostolidis

• Autore: Apostolidis Paul <1965->
• 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
• 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.: 9910785201303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II