University of California Press
Janitors, Street Vendors, and Activists: The Lives of Mexican Immigrants in Silicon Valley
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- Christian Zlolniski
- University of California Press
- Paperback
- 9780520246430
- 8.98 X 6.1 X 0.65 inches
- 0.79 pounds
- Political Science > Labor & Industrial Relations
- English
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This highly accessible, engagingly written book exposes the underbelly of California's Silicon Valley, the most successful high-technology region in the world, in a vivid ethnographic study of Mexican immigrants employed in Silicon Valley's low-wage jobs. Christian Zlolniski's on-the-ground investigation demonstrates how global forces have incorporated these workers as an integral part of the economy through subcontracting and other flexible labor practices and explores how these labor practices have in turn affected working conditions and workers' daily lives. In Zlolniski's analysis, these immigrants do not emerge merely as victims of a harsh economy; despite the obstacles they face, they are transforming labor and community politics, infusing new blood into labor unions, and challenging exclusionary notions of civic and political membership. This richly textured and complex portrait of one community opens a window onto the future of Mexican and other Latino immigrants in the new U.S. economy.
Janitors, Street Vendors, and Activists: The Lives of Mexican Immigrants in Silicon Valley
Author Bio
Christian Zlolniski is a professor, sociology and anthropology at The University of Texas at Arlington. His research interests include labor market and the use of migrant workers in fresh produce industry and the implication of the use of natural gas on labor market and environment.
Education
1998 PhD in Cultural Anthropology
University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California
1989 MA in Anthropology
University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California
1984 BA in Anthropology
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrin, Spain
Source: The University of Texas at Arlington
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