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Leon Fink

The Maya of Morganton

Work and Community in the Nuevo New South

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The arrival of several hundred Guatemalan-born workers in a Morganton, North Carolina, poultry plant sets the stage for this dramatic story of human struggle in an age of globalization. When laborers' concerns about safety and fairness spark a strike and, ultimately, a unionizing campaign at Case Farms, the resulting decade-long standoff pits a recalcitrant New South employer against an unlikely coalition of antagonists. Mayan refugees from war-torn Guatemala, Mexican workers, and a diverse group of local allies join forces with the Laborers union. The ensuing clash becomes a testing ground for new labor workplace and legal strategies. In the… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8078-5447-1
  • EAN: 9780807854471
  • Produktnummer: 9965992
  • Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
  • Seitenangabe: 274 S.
  • Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.6 cm 446 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 446

Über den Autor


Leon Fink is professor of history, director of the Work, Race, and Gender in the Urban World graduate program, and editor of the journal Labor History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His most recent book is Progressive Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Democratic Commitment.

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