Janitors, Street Vendors, and Activists The Lives of Mexican Immigrants in Silicon Valley

Name: Janitors, Street Vendors, and Activists The Lives of Mexican Immigrants in Silicon Valley
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ISBN: 9780520246430

ISBN-10: 0520246438

ISBN-13: 9780520246430

Edition: 2006

Authors: Christian Zlolniski

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This highly accessible, engagingly written book exposes the underbelly of California's Silicon Valley, the most successful high-technology region in the world, in a vivid ethnographic study of Mexican immigrants employed in Silicon Valley's low-wage jobs. Christian Zlolniski's on-the-ground investigation demonstrates how global forces have incorporated these workers as an integral part of the economy through subcontracting and other flexible labor practices and explores how these labor practices have in turn affected working conditions and workers' daily lives. In Zlolniski's analysis, these immigrants do not emerge merely as victims of a harsh economy; despite the obstacles they face, they…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 2/7/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 262
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.792



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Mexican Immigrants in Silicon Valley



The Subcontracting of Mexican Janitors in the High-Tech Industry



Working in the Informal Economy



Mexican Families in Santech



Community Politics in the Barrio


Conclusion: Subproletarians in a Postindustrial Economy


Epilogue: After the Dot-Com Demise


Notes


References


Index