Description
Book SynopsisBringing to the fore the words, ideas, and struggles of the workers themselves, this book underlines how deep racial tensions permeate the factory, as an overwhelmingly minority workforce is subject to white dominance.
Trade Review"A tremendously well-written book and model of rich and rigorous ethnographic scholarship that makes important contributions to the literatures on work and immi- grant incorporation in the contemporary US South." European Journal of Sociology
Table of ContentsList 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 theComposition 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
