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Transnational tortillas : race, gender, and shop-floor politics in Mexico and the United States / Carolina Bank Muñoz.

Author/creator Bank Muñoz, Carolina
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoIthaca : ILR Press, 2008.
Descriptionxi, 202 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject(s)
Tortilla industry--Mexico --Baja California (Peninsula)
Tortilla industry--California.
Factory system--Mexico --Baja California (Peninsula)
Factory system--California.
Industrial relations--Mexico --Baja California (Peninsula)
Industrial relations--California.
Women--Employment --Mexico --Baja California (Peninsula)
Foreign workers, Mexican--California.
Contents The tortilla behemoth and global production -- The political economy of corn and tortillas -- A tale of two countries : immigration policy and globalization in the United States and Mexico -- Hacienda CA : immigration regime -- Hacienda BC : gender regime -- Fighting back? resistance in the age of neoliberalism -- Shop-floor politics in the twenty-first century.
General note"ILR/Cornell paperbacks"--P. [4] of cover.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [183]-193) and index.
LCCN 2008011611
ISBN9780801446498 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN080144649X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780801474224 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0801474221 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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