Breaks in the Chain: What Immigrant Workers Can Teach America About Democracy - Couverture souple

Apostolidis, Paul

 
9780816669820: Breaks in the Chain: What Immigrant Workers Can Teach America About Democracy
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ISBN 10 : 0816669821 ISBN 13 : 9780816669820
Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2010

Synopsis

In Breaks in the Chain, Paul Apostolidis investigates the personal life stories of a group of Mexican immigrant meatpackers who are at once typical and extraordinary. After crossing the border clandestinely and navigating the treacherous world of the undocumented, they waged a campaign to democratize their union and their workplace in the most hazardous industry in the United States.
Breaks in the Chain shows how immigrant workers-individually and sometimes collectively-both reinforce and contest a tacit but lethal form of biopolitics that differentiates the life chances of racial groups. Examining their personal narratives, Apostolidis recasts our understanding of the ways immigrants construct and transform social power.
Apostolidis uses empirical inquiry to spark new reflections in critical theory as he analyzes how immigrant workers' local practices confront structural power within and beyond America's borders. Linking stories of immigration to stories about working on the meat production line-the chain-he reveals the surprising power of activism by immigrant workers and their allies and demonstrates how it can-and should-promote social and political democracy in America.

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À propos de l?auteur

Paul Apostolidis holds the Judge and Mrs. Timothy A. Paul Chair of Political Science at Whitman College. He is the author of Stations of the Cross: Adorno and Christian Right Radio and coeditor of Public Affairs: Politics in the Age of Sex Scandals.

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Éditeur
University of Minnesota Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0816669821
ISBN 13 
9780816669820
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
360
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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9780816669813: Breaks in the Chain: What Immigrant Workers Can Teach America About Democracy

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ISBN 10 :  0816669813 ISBN 13 :  9780816669813
Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2010
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