The chicken trail : following workers, migrants, and corporations across the Americas /
Schwartzman, Kathleen Crowley, 1948-
The chicken trail : following workers, migrants, and corporations across the Americas / Kathleen C. Schwartzman. - 1 online resource -
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-194) and index.
Why follow chickens? -- Ethnic succession in the south -- Where have all the workers gone? -- Taylorism invades the hen house -- Solving industry crises : pollos y polleros -- Squeezing out Mexican chicken -- Voice : squawking at globalization -- Exit Mexico : si muero lejos de ti -- The global dilemma : summary and reflections.
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 small farms, with some seeking work in industrialized poultry factories north of the border. By following this chicken trail, Schwartzman breaks through the deadlocked immigration debate, highlighting the broader economic and political contexts of immigration flows. The narrative that undocumented worker take jobs that Americans don't want to do is too simplistic. Schwartzman argues instead that illegal immigration is better understood as a labor story in which the hiring of undocumented workers is part of a management response to the crises of profit making and labor-management conflict. By placing the poultry industry at the center of a constellation of competing individual, corporate, and national interests and such factors as national debt, free trade, economic development, industrial restructuring, and African American unemployment, The Chicken Trail makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the implications of globalization for labor and how the externalities of free trade and neoliberalism become the social problems of nations and the tragedies of individuals.
In English.
cloth : alk. paper pbk. : alk. paper 9780801468049 ebook 0801468043 0801468051 (electronic bk.) 9780801468056 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper)
10.7591/9780801468056 doi
22573/ctt1jr7r6 JSTOR
2019725592
Chicken industry--United States.
Chicken industry--Mexico.
Foreign workers, Mexican--United States.
Unemployment--United States.
Unemployment--Mexico.
Poulets--Industrie--États-Unis.
Poulets--Industrie--Mexique.
Travailleurs étrangers mexicains--États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Industries--General.
Chicken industry.
Commerce.
Emigration and immigration.
Foreign workers, Mexican.
Unemployment.
United States--Emigration and immigration.
Mexico--Emigration and immigration.
United States--Commerce--Mexico.
Mexico--Commerce--United States.
États-Unis--Commerce--Mexique.
Mexico.
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HD9437.U62
338.1/76500973
The chicken trail : following workers, migrants, and corporations across the Americas / Kathleen C. Schwartzman. - 1 online resource -
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-194) and index.
Why follow chickens? -- Ethnic succession in the south -- Where have all the workers gone? -- Taylorism invades the hen house -- Solving industry crises : pollos y polleros -- Squeezing out Mexican chicken -- Voice : squawking at globalization -- Exit Mexico : si muero lejos de ti -- The global dilemma : summary and reflections.
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 small farms, with some seeking work in industrialized poultry factories north of the border. By following this chicken trail, Schwartzman breaks through the deadlocked immigration debate, highlighting the broader economic and political contexts of immigration flows. The narrative that undocumented worker take jobs that Americans don't want to do is too simplistic. Schwartzman argues instead that illegal immigration is better understood as a labor story in which the hiring of undocumented workers is part of a management response to the crises of profit making and labor-management conflict. By placing the poultry industry at the center of a constellation of competing individual, corporate, and national interests and such factors as national debt, free trade, economic development, industrial restructuring, and African American unemployment, The Chicken Trail makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the implications of globalization for labor and how the externalities of free trade and neoliberalism become the social problems of nations and the tragedies of individuals.
In English.
cloth : alk. paper pbk. : alk. paper 9780801468049 ebook 0801468043 0801468051 (electronic bk.) 9780801468056 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper)
10.7591/9780801468056 doi
22573/ctt1jr7r6 JSTOR
2019725592
Chicken industry--United States.
Chicken industry--Mexico.
Foreign workers, Mexican--United States.
Unemployment--United States.
Unemployment--Mexico.
Poulets--Industrie--États-Unis.
Poulets--Industrie--Mexique.
Travailleurs étrangers mexicains--États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Industries--General.
Chicken industry.
Commerce.
Emigration and immigration.
Foreign workers, Mexican.
Unemployment.
United States--Emigration and immigration.
Mexico--Emigration and immigration.
United States--Commerce--Mexico.
Mexico--Commerce--United States.
États-Unis--Commerce--Mexique.
Mexico.
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HD9437.U62
338.1/76500973