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On the Line: Slaughterhouse Lives and the Making of the New South
Vanesa Ribas
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Description for On the Line: Slaughterhouse Lives and the Making of the New South
Paperback. Bringing to the fore the words, ideas, and struggles of the workers themselves, this book underlines how deep racial tensions permeate the factory, as an overwhelmingly minority workforce is subject to white dominance. Num Pages: 270 pages, 13 b/w photographs, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; JFSL3; JFSL4; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
How does one put into words the rage that workers feel when supervisors threaten to replace them with workers who will not go to the bathroom in the course of a fourteen-hour day of hard labor, even if it means wetting themselves on the line? - From the Preface In this gutsy, eye-opening examination of the lives of workers in the New South, Vanesa Ribas, working alongside mostly Latino/a and native-born African American laborers for sixteen months, takes us inside the contemporary American slaughterhouse. Ribas, a native Spanish speaker, occupies an insider/outsider status there, enabling her to capture vividly ... Read more
How does one put into words the rage that workers feel when supervisors threaten to replace them with workers who will not go to the bathroom in the course of a fourteen-hour day of hard labor, even if it means wetting themselves on the line? - From the Preface In this gutsy, eye-opening examination of the lives of workers in the New South, Vanesa Ribas, working alongside mostly Latino/a and native-born African American laborers for sixteen months, takes us inside the contemporary American slaughterhouse. Ribas, a native Spanish speaker, occupies an insider/outsider status there, enabling her to capture vividly ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
270
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
401g
Number of Pages
270
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520282964
SKU
V9780520282964
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About Vanesa Ribas
Vanesa Ribas is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego.
Reviews for On the Line: Slaughterhouse Lives and the Making of the New South
A tremendously well-written book and model of rich and rigorous ethnographic scholarship that makes important contributions to the literatures on work and immi- grant incorporation in the contemporary US South. European Journal of Sociology