The Maya of Morganton work and community in the nuevo New South / Leon Fink, with research assistance from Alvis E. Dunn.
| Author/creator | Fink, Leon, 1948 |
| Other author | Dunn, Alvis E. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | Revised and expanded edition. |
| Publication Info | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2024] |
| Description | xvi, 284 pages illustrations 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from JSTOR University of North Carolina Press Publisher Collection (Backlist) |
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| Physical medium | illustrations |
| Contents | The way it is in Morganton -- Flight of the happy farmers -- How the dead helped to organize the living -- No one leader -- The workers are ready -- Changing places -- Sticking together -- Revisiting the Maya of Morganton. |
| Abstract | "In 2003, Leon Fink published his oral history of Guatemalan and Mexican migrants in Morganton, North Carolina, and their fight for unionization in a poultry processing plant. In the years since, Fink remained in touch with many of the people he profiled in the book, and in 2022 he returned to Morganton to interview them and talk with their children, new migrants in the area, and community leaders, particularly women. Their conversations covered a wide range of topics, including labor struggles and victories, grassroots and electoral political organizing, social activism (especially on issues affecting undocumented migrants), class mobility for second-generation migrants, and new cooperative worker-owned institutions, including a bookstore, a textile factory, and a preschool. This revised and expanded edition of The Maya of Morganton reveals what Fink found on his return to Morganton, documenting two decades of continuity and change in a new preface and chapter. Together with the original material, the book presents a comprehensive yet intimate examination of the migrant experience in western North Carolina"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-270) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024022953 |
| ISBN | 9781469682112 paper alk. paper |
| ISBN | epub |
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| ISBN | ebook other |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |