Chicken Trail Following Workers, Migrants, and Corporations Across the Americas

Name: Chicken Trail Following Workers, Migrants, and Corporations Across the Americas
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ISBN: 9780801478093

ISBN-10: 080147809X

ISBN-13: 9780801478093

Edition: 2012

Authors: Kathleen C. Schwartzman

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In The Chicken Trail, Kathleen C. Schwartzman examines the impact of globalization-and of NAFTA in particular-on the North American poultry industry, focusing on the displacement of African American workers in the southeast United States and workers in Mexico. Schwartzman documents how the transformation of U.S. poultry production in the 1980s increased its export capacity and changed the nature and consequences of labor conflict. She documents how globalization-and NAFTA in particular-forced Mexico to open its commodity and capital markets, and eliminate state support of corporations and rural smallholders. As a consequence, many Mexicans were forced to abandon their no longer sustainable…

Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 1/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Kathleen C. Schwartzman is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona. She is the author of The Social Origins of Democratic Collapse: The First Portuguese Republic in the Global Economy .



Preface


List of Abbreviations



Why Follow Chickens?



Ethnic Succession in the South



Where Have All the Workers Gone?



Taylorism Invades the Hen House



Solving Industry Crises: Polios Y Polleros



Squeezing Out Mexican Chicken



Voice: Squawking At Globalization



Exit Mexico: "Si Muero Lejos De Ti"



The Global Dilemma: Summary and Reflections


Notes


References


Index