Scratching Out a Living
Subtitle: Latinos, Race, and Work in the Deep South
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Jan 26, 2016
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780520287211
Description: "What does globalization look like in the rural South? Scratching Out a Living takes readers deep into Mississippi's chicken processing communities and workplaces, where large numbers of Latin American migrants began arriving in the mid-1990s to labor alongside an established African American workforce in some of the most dangerous and lowest paid jobs in the country. Based on six years of collaboration with a local workers' center, activist anthropologist Angela Stuesse explores how Black, white, and new Latino residents have experienced and understood these transformations. Illuminating connections between the area's long history of racial inequality, the poultry industry's growth, immigrants' contested place in contemporary social relations, and workers' prospects for political mobilization, Scratching Out a Living calls for organizing strategies that bring diverse working communities together in mutual construction of a more just future"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Source title: Scratching Out a Living: Latinos, Race, and Work in the Deep South (California Series in Public Anthropology)