Title:
Breaks in the chain : what immigrant workers can teach America about democracy
Author:
Apostolidis, Paul, 1965-
ISBN:
9780816674848
9780816669813
9780816669820
Publication Information:
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2010.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xlvii, 290 pages)
Abstract:
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.
Electronic Access:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttsv25Copies:
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