Transnational Tortillas Race, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States

Name: Transnational Tortillas Race, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States
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ISBN: 9780801474224

ISBN-10: 0801474221

ISBN-13: 9780801474224

Edition: 2011

Authors: Carolina Bank Muï¿½oz

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This book looks at the flip side of globalization: How does a company from the Global South behave differently when it also produces in the Global North? A Mexican tortilla company, "Tortimundo," has two production facilities within a hundred miles of each other, but on different sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. The workers at the two factories produce the same product with the same technology, but have significantly different work realities. This "global factory" gives Carolina Bank Muntilde;oz an ideal opportunity to reveal how management regimes and company policy on each side of the border apply different strategies to exploit their respective workforces' vulnerabilities.The author's…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 8/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English

Carolina Bank Muï¿½oz is a professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.