The chicken trail : following workers, migrants, and corporations across the Americas

The chicken trail : following workers, migrants, and corporations across the Americas / Kathleen C. Schwartzman.

"In The Chicken Trail, Kathleen C. Schwartzman examines the impact of globalization-and of NAFTA in particular-on the North American poultry industry, focusing on the displacement of African American workers in the southeast United States and workers in Mexico. Schwartzman documents how the tra...

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Main Author: Schwartzman, Kathleen Crowley, 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : ILR Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Chicken industry > United States.
Chicken industry > Mexico.
Foreign workers, Mexican > United States.
Unemployment > United States.
Unemployment > Mexico.
United States > Emigration and immigration.
Mexico > Emigration and immigration.
United States > Commerce > Mexico.
Mexico > Commerce > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Why follow chickens?
  • Ethnic succession in the south
  • Where have all the workers gone?
  • Taylorism invades the hen house
  • Solving industry crises : pollos y polleros
  • Squeezing out Mexican chicken
  • Voice : squawking at globalization
  • Exit Mexico : "si muero lejos de ti"
  • The global dilemma : summary and reflections.

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