Linked labor histories
Subtitle: New England, Colombia, and the making of a global working class
By: Aviva Chomsky.
Series: American encounters/global interactions
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Durham, [N.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9780822341734; 9780822341901
Subjects: Industrial relations -- New England -- Case studies; Industrial relations -- Colombia -- Case studies; Globalization -- Economic aspects; Working class; Labor unions; Neoliberalism
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [357] -372) and index.
Table of contents: title: New England. The Draper Company: from Hopedale to Medellín and back; title: The Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company: labor-management collaboration and its discontents; title: Guns, butter, and the new (old) international division of labor; title: Invisible workers in a dying industry: Latino immigrants in New England textile towns; title: Colombia. The cutting edge of globalization: neoliberalism and violence in Colombia's banana zone; title: Taking care of business in Colombia: U.S. multinationals, the U.S. government and the AFL-CIO; title: Mining the connections: where does your coal come from?