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Transnational tortillas : race, gender, and shop-floor politics in Mexico and the United States /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bank Muñoz, Carolina
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : ILR Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Tortilla industry > Mexico > Baja California (Peninsula)
Tortilla industry > California.
Factory system > Mexico > Baja California (Peninsula)
Factory system > California.
Industrial relations > Mexico > Baja California (Peninsula)
Industrial relations > California.
Women > Employment > Mexico > Baja California (Peninsula)
Foreign workers, Mexican > California.
Table of Contents:
  • The tortilla behemoth and global production
  • The political economy of corn and tortillas
  • A tale of two countries : immigration policy and globalization in the United States and Mexico
  • Hacienda CA : immigration regime
  • Hacienda BC : gender regime
  • Fighting back? resistance in the age of neoliberalism
  • Shop-floor politics in the twenty-first century.