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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Main Author:	Ribas, Vanesa
Format:	eBook Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oakland, Calif University of California Press 2015
Edition:	1
Subjects:	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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