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The Resource The chicken trail : following workers, migrants, and corporations across the Americas, Kathleen C. Schwartzman, (electronic book)

The chicken trail : following workers, migrants, and corporations across the Americas, Kathleen C. Schwartzman, (electronic book)

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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 transformation of U.S. poultry production in the 1980s increased its export capacity and changed the nature and consequences of labor conflict. She documents how globalization-and NAFTA in particular-forced Mexico to open its commodity and capital markets, and eliminate state support of corporations and rural smallholders. As a consequence, many Mexicans were forced to abandon their no longer sustainable small farms, with some seeking work in industrialized poultry factories north of the border. By following this chicken trail, Schwartzman breaks through the deadlocked immigration debate, highlighting the broader economic and political contexts of immigration flows. The narrative that undocumented worker take jobs that Americans don't want to do is too simplistic. Schwartzman argues instead that illegal immigration is better understood as a labor story in which the hiring of undocumented workers is part of a management response to the crises of profit making and labor-management conflict. By placing the poultry industry at the center of a constellation of competing individual, corporate, and national interests and such factors as national debt, free trade, economic development, industrial restructuring, and African American unemployment, The Chicken Trail makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the implications of globalization for labor and how the externalities of free trade and neoliberalism become the social problems of nations and the tragedies of individuals
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
xx, 202 p.
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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The chicken trail : following workers, migrants, and corporations across the Americas
Title
The chicken trail
Title remainder
following workers, migrants, and corporations across the Americas
Statement of responsibility
Kathleen C. Schwartzman
Creator
Author
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
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 transformation of U.S. poultry production in the 1980s increased its export capacity and changed the nature and consequences of labor conflict. She documents how globalization-and NAFTA in particular-forced Mexico to open its commodity and capital markets, and eliminate state support of corporations and rural smallholders. As a consequence, many Mexicans were forced to abandon their no longer sustainable small farms, with some seeking work in industrialized poultry factories north of the border. By following this chicken trail, Schwartzman breaks through the deadlocked immigration debate, highlighting the broader economic and political contexts of immigration flows. The narrative that undocumented worker take jobs that Americans don't want to do is too simplistic. Schwartzman argues instead that illegal immigration is better understood as a labor story in which the hiring of undocumented workers is part of a management response to the crises of profit making and labor-management conflict. By placing the poultry industry at the center of a constellation of competing individual, corporate, and national interests and such factors as national debt, free trade, economic development, industrial restructuring, and African American unemployment, The Chicken Trail makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the implications of globalization for labor and how the externalities of free trade and neoliberalism become the social problems of nations and the tragedies of individuals
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1948-
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Schwartzman, Kathleen Crowley
Dewey number
338.1/76500973
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charts
Index
index present
LC call number
HD9437.U62
LC item number
S49 2013eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
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  • Chicken industry
  • Chicken industry
  • Foreign workers, Mexican
  • Unemployment
  • Unemployment
  • United States
  • Mexico
  • United States
  • Mexico
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The chicken trail : following workers, migrants, and corporations across the Americas, Kathleen C. Schwartzman, (electronic book)
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Publication
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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online resource
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  • cr
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rdacarrier
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multicolored
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text
Content type code
  • txt
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rdacontent
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
Control code
ebr10640267
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
xx, 202 p.
Form of item
electronic
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Original version note
Original electronic resource
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ill.
Reproduction note
Electronic resource.
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remote
Label
The chicken trail : following workers, migrants, and corporations across the Americas, Kathleen C. Schwartzman, (electronic book)
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Control code
ebr10640267
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
xx, 202 p.
Form of item
electronic
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Original version note
Original electronic resource
Other physical details
ill.
Reproduction note
Electronic resource.
Specific material designation
remote

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