Cut loose : jobless and hopeless in an unfair economy / / Victor Tan Chen |
Autore | Chen Victor Tan <1976-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (339 p.) |
Disciplina | 331.13/70973 |
Soggetto topico |
Unemployed - United States
Unemployed - Canada Automobile industry workers - United States Automobile industry workers - Canada |
Soggetto non controllato |
21st century american economy
american auto industry american economy american history auto industry autoworkers business call to action car industry class inequality depressed economy economic concerns economy ethics factory work great recession historical income inequality industrial economic relations job killing technology labor policy labor laid off workers middle class morality political politics sociology technology unemployment work overseas worker working class |
ISBN | 0-520-28301-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1. They Had It Coming -- CHAPTER 2. All This Garbage from Life: Education and the Capital Speedup -- CHAPTER 3. Decline and Fall: Hardship, Race, and the Social Safety Net -- CHAPTER 4. Half a Man: Fragile Families and the Unmarriageable Unemployed -- CHAPTER 5. Vicious Circles: The Structure of Power and the Culture of Judgment -- CHAPTER 6. Loser: The Failures of the American Dream -- CHAPTER 7. There Go I -- Appendix: Research Methods and Policy Details -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788104503321 |
Chen Victor Tan <1976-> | ||
Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cut loose : jobless and hopeless in an unfair economy / / Victor Tan Chen |
Autore | Chen Victor Tan <1976-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (339 p.) |
Disciplina | 331.13/70973 |
Soggetto topico |
Unemployed - United States
Unemployed - Canada Automobile industry workers - United States Automobile industry workers - Canada |
Soggetto non controllato |
21st century american economy
american auto industry american economy american history auto industry autoworkers business call to action car industry class inequality depressed economy economic concerns economy ethics factory work great recession historical income inequality industrial economic relations job killing technology labor policy labor laid off workers middle class morality political politics sociology technology unemployment work overseas worker working class |
ISBN | 0-520-28301-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1. They Had It Coming -- CHAPTER 2. All This Garbage from Life: Education and the Capital Speedup -- CHAPTER 3. Decline and Fall: Hardship, Race, and the Social Safety Net -- CHAPTER 4. Half a Man: Fragile Families and the Unmarriageable Unemployed -- CHAPTER 5. Vicious Circles: The Structure of Power and the Culture of Judgment -- CHAPTER 6. Loser: The Failures of the American Dream -- CHAPTER 7. There Go I -- Appendix: Research Methods and Policy Details -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825452803321 |
Chen Victor Tan <1976-> | ||
Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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On the line : slaughterhouse lives and the making of the new South / / Vanesa Ribas |
Autore | Ribas Vanesa <1979-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
Disciplina | 331.6/209756 |
Soggetto topico |
Foreign workers - North Carolina - Social conditions
Slaughtering and slaughter-houses - North Carolina - Employees - Social conditions African Americans - North Carolina - Social conditions Hispanic Americans - North Carolina - Social conditions Minorities - Employment - North Carolina Racism in the workplace - North Carolina |
Soggetto non controllato |
african american
american worker contemporary american slaughterhouse corporate america deportation threats ethnographic research exploitation factory work factory family separation hard labor immigrant workers insider outsider status labor protection labor studies labor latina workers latino workers medical attention migrant workers minority workforce native born americans new south racial tensions slaughterhouse struggles united states of america white dominance workers rights workers |
ISBN | 0-520-95882-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction. Lives on the Line: Carving Out a New South -- 2. All Roads Lead From Olancho to Swine's: The Making of a Latino/A Working Class in the American South -- 3. The Meanings of Moyo: The Transnational Roots of Shop-Floor Racial Talk -- 4. "Painted Black": Oppressive Exploitation and Racialized Resentment -- 5. The Value of Being Negro, the Cost of Being Hispano: Disposability and the Challenges for Cross-Racial Solidarity in the Workplace -- 6. Black, White, and Latino/A Bosses: How the Composition of the Authority Structure Mediates Perceptions of Privilege and the Experience of Subordination -- 7. Exclusion or Ambivalence?: Explaining African Americans' Boundary-Work -- 8. Conclusion. Prismatic Engagement: Latino/a and African American Workers' Encounters in a Southern Meatpacking Plant -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797753003321 |
Ribas Vanesa <1979-> | ||
Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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On the line : slaughterhouse lives and the making of the new South / / Vanesa Ribas |
Autore | Ribas Vanesa <1979-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
Disciplina | 331.6/209756 |
Soggetto topico |
Foreign workers - North Carolina - Social conditions
Slaughtering and slaughter-houses - North Carolina - Employees - Social conditions African Americans - North Carolina - Social conditions Hispanic Americans - North Carolina - Social conditions Minorities - Employment - North Carolina Racism in the workplace - North Carolina |
Soggetto non controllato |
african american
american worker contemporary american slaughterhouse corporate america deportation threats ethnographic research exploitation factory work factory family separation hard labor immigrant workers insider outsider status labor protection labor studies labor latina workers latino workers medical attention migrant workers minority workforce native born americans new south racial tensions slaughterhouse struggles united states of america white dominance workers rights workers |
ISBN | 0-520-95882-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction. Lives on the Line: Carving Out a New South -- 2. All Roads Lead From Olancho to Swine's: The Making of a Latino/A Working Class in the American South -- 3. The Meanings of Moyo: The Transnational Roots of Shop-Floor Racial Talk -- 4. "Painted Black": Oppressive Exploitation and Racialized Resentment -- 5. The Value of Being Negro, the Cost of Being Hispano: Disposability and the Challenges for Cross-Racial Solidarity in the Workplace -- 6. Black, White, and Latino/A Bosses: How the Composition of the Authority Structure Mediates Perceptions of Privilege and the Experience of Subordination -- 7. Exclusion or Ambivalence?: Explaining African Americans' Boundary-Work -- 8. Conclusion. Prismatic Engagement: Latino/a and African American Workers' Encounters in a Southern Meatpacking Plant -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808604703321 |
Ribas Vanesa <1979-> | ||
Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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