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 transform...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Schwartzman, Kathleen C.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013]
©2012
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 17 tables, 9 charts, 6 x 9
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • List of Abbreviations
  • 1. Why Follow Chickens?
  • 2. Ethnic Succession in the South
  • 3. Where Have All the Workers Gone?
  • 4. Taylorism Invades the Hen House
  • 5. Solving Industry Crises: Pollos Y Polleros
  • 6. Squeezing Out Mexican Chicken
  • 7. Voice: Squawking At Globalization
  • 8. Exit Mexico: "Si Muero Lejos De Ti"
  • 9. The Global Dilemma: Summary and Reflections
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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