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The chicken trail

Schwartzman, Kathleen Crowley, 1948-

The chicken trail following workers, migrants, and corporations across the Americas / [electronic resource] : Kathleen C. Schwartzman. - Ithaca : ILR Press, 2013. - xx, 202 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references 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.

Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Chicken industry--United States.
Chicken industry--Mexico.
Foreign workers, Mexican--United States.
Unemployment--United States.
Unemployment--Mexico.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Emigration and immigration.
Mexico--Emigration and immigration.
United States--Commerce--Mexico.
Mexico--Commerce--United States.

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HD9437.U62 / S49 2013eb

Dewey Class. No.: 338.1/76500973