On the line slaughterhouse lives and the making of the new south

"How does one put into words the rage that workers feel when supervisors threaten to replace them with workers who will not go to the bathroom in the course of a fourteen-hour day of hard labor, even if it means wetting themselves on the line?"-From the PrefaceIn this gutsy, eye-opening ex...

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Hlavní autor:	Ribas, Vanesa
Médium:	E-kniha Kniha
Jazyk:	angličtina
Vydáno:	Oakland, Calif University of California Press 2015
Vydání:	1
Témata:	african american African Americans African Americans > North Carolina > Social conditions american worker contemporary american slaughterhouse corporate america deportation threats Emigration & Immigration Employees Employment ethnographic research exploitation factory factory work family separation Foreign workers Foreign workers > North Carolina > Social conditions hard labor Hispanic Americans Hispanic Americans > North Carolina > Social conditions immigrant workers insider outsider status labor labor protection labor studies latina workers latino workers medical attention migrant workers Minorities Minorities > Employment > North Carolina minority workforce native born americans new south North Carolina racial tensions Racism in the workplace Racism in the workplace > North Carolina slaughterhouse Slaughtering and slaughter-houses Slaughtering and slaughter-houses > North Carolina > Employees > Social conditions Social conditions SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration Sociology struggles united states of america white dominance workers workers rights hard labor latino workers exploitation racial tensions factory work american worker united states of america deportation threats medical attention african american struggles workers workers rights factory labor protection contemporary american slaughterhouse slaughterhouse native born americans migrant workers new south ethnographic research labor labor studies minority workforce white dominance immigrant workers insider outsider status corporate america family separation latina workers
ISBN:	0520958829, 0520282965, 9780520282964, 9780520958821, 0520282957, 9780520282957
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On the line : slaughterhouse lives and the making of the new south -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Lives on the Line: Carving Out a New South -- Chapter 2: All Roads Lead From Olancho to Swine’s: The Making of a Latino/A Working Class in the American South -- Chapter 3: The Meanings of Moyo: The Transnational Roots of Shop-Floor Racial Talk -- Chapter 4: “Painted Black”: Oppressive Exploitation and Racialized Resentment -- Chapter 5: The Value of Being Negro, the Cost of Being Hispano: Disposability and the Challenges for Cross-Racial Solidarity in the Workplace -- Chapter 6: Black, White, and Latino/A Bosses: How the Composition of the Authority Structure Mediates Perceptions of Privilege and the Experience of Subordination -- Chapter 7: Exclusion or Ambivalence?: Explaining African Americans’ Boundary-Work -- Chapter 8: Conclusion: Prismatic Engagement: Latino/a and African American Workers’ Encounters in a Southern Meatpacking Plant -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Front Matter Table of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments CHAPTER 1: Introduction CHAPTER 2: All Roads Lead from Olancho to Swine’s: CHAPTER 3: The Meanings of Moyo: CHAPTER 4: “Painted Black”: CHAPTER 5: The Value of Being Negro, The Cost of Being Hispano: CHAPTER 6: Black, White, and Latino/a Bosses: CHAPTER 7: Exclusion or Ambivalence?: CHAPTER 8: Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
Cover -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
Acknowledgments --
Contents --
3. The Meanings of Moyo: The Transnational Roots of Shop-Floor Racial Talk --
8. Conclusion. Prismatic Engagement: Latino/a and African American Workers’ Encounters in a Southern Meatpacking Plant --
Preface --
6. Black, White, and Latino/A Bosses: How the Composition of the Authority Structure Mediates Perceptions of Privilege and the Experience of Subordination --
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 --
Index
7. Exclusion or Ambivalence?: Explaining African Americans’ Boundary-Work --
List of Illustrations --
5. The Value of Being Negro, the Cost of Being Hispano: Disposability and the Challenges for Cross-Racial Solidarity in the Workplace --
Frontmatter --
4. “Painted Black”: Oppressive Exploitation and Racialized Resentment --
Notes --
Bibliography --