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10%OFFCarolina Bank Muñoz - Transnational Tortillas: Race, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States - 9780801474224 - V9780801474224
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Transnational Tortillas: Race, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States

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Description for Transnational Tortillas: Race, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 1KLCM; JFSJ1; JHMP; KNDF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 314.

This book looks at the flip side of globalization: How does a company from the Global South behave differently when it also produces in the Global North? A Mexican tortilla company, "Tortimundo," has two production facilities within a hundred miles of each other, but on different sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. The workers at the two factories produce the same product with the same technology, but have significantly different work realities. This "global factory" gives Carolina Bank Muñoz an ideal opportunity to reveal how management regimes and company policy on each side of the border apply different strategies to exploit ... Read more

The author's in-depth ethnographic fieldwork shows that the U.S. factory is characterized by an "immigration regime" and the Mexican factory by a "gender regime." In the California factory, managers use state policy and laws related to immigration status to pit documented and undocumented workers against each other. Undocumented workers are subject to harsher punishment, night-shift work, and lower pay. In the Baja California factory, managers sexually harass women—who make up most of the workforce—and create divisions between light- and dark-skinned women, forcing them to compete for managerial attention, which they understand equates with job security.

In describing and analyzing the differences in working conditions between the two plants, Bank Muñoz provides important new insights into how, in a globalized economy, managerial strategies for labor control are determined by the interaction of state policies and labor market conditions with race, gender, and class at the point of production.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780801474224
SKU
V9780801474224
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About Carolina Bank Muñoz
Carolina Bank Muñoz is Associate Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College–City University of New York.

Reviews for Transnational Tortillas: Race, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States
Transnational Tortillas is a case study of two tortilla factories owned by the same company but located across the U.S.-Mexico border from each other. This transnational company organizes labor control differently in the two social and political contexts: The Mexican factory deploys a 'gender regime,' employing young women on the factory floor under the sexist supervision of men; while the ... Read more

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