The Maya of Morganton : work and community in the nuevo new south / Leon Fink, with research assistance from Alvis E. Dunn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fink, Leon, 1948-

Contributor:

Dunn, Alvis E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poultry plants--North Carolina--Morganton--Employees.

Poultry plants.

Labor disputes--North Carolina--Morganton.

Labor disputes.

Poultry plants--Employees--Labor unions--North Carolina--Morganton.

Foreign workers, Guatemalan--North Carolina--Morganton.

Foreign workers, Guatemalan.

Mayas--North Carolina--Morganton.

Mayas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The arrival of several hundred Guatemalan-born workers in a Morganton, North Carolina poultry plant sets the stage for this story of human struggle in an age of globalization. The author follows what happened when concerns about fairness and safety sparked a strike and an unlikely coalition.

Contents:

Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. TheWay It Is in Morganton; 2. Flight of the Happy Farmers; 3. How the Dead Helped to Organize the Living; 4. No One Leader; 5. TheWorkers Are Ready; 6. Changing Places; 7. Sticking Together; Notes; Glossary of Spanish Terms; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-238) and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908768-7-4

0-8078-6241-X

OCLC:

476236650