Title: Scratching Out a Living
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.
Subjects: Poultry industry, Foreign workers, African americans, mississippi, Industrial relations, united states, United states, race relations, Race relations, Latin American Foreign workers, Chicken industry, Social conditions, African Americans, Industrial relations, Chicken industry--social conditions, Chicken industry--mississippi--social conditions, Foreign workers, latin american--social conditions, Foreign workers, latin american--mississippi--social conditions, African americans--social conditions, African americans--mississippi--social conditions, Industrial relations--mississippi, Hd9437.u63 m778 2016, 331.6/2809762