{"product_id":"transnational-tortillas-race-gender-and-shop-floor-politics-in-mexico-and-the-united-states-hardback-9780801446498","title":"Transnational Tortillas; Race, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States (Hardback) 9780801446498","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTransnational Tortillas\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRace, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCarolina Bank Muñoz (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780801446498\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 August 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e216 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTransnational Tortillas \u003c\/i\u003eis 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 U.S. factory uses an 'immigration regime,' employing undocumented Mexican men for the worst jobs and the night shift and Mexican American men (who are U.S. citizens) for the better jobs, some of which are unionized.\u003c\/p\u003e - Christine L. Williams (Gender \u0026amp; Society) \u003cp\u003eCarolina Bank Munoz has written a passionate, polemical, but scrupulously objective volume on the intersection of race, gender, and class in two tortilla factories located on opposite sides of the United States–Mexico border in California.\u003c\/p\u003e - Julio César Pino (Enterprise \u0026amp; Society) \u003cp\u003eThe ethnographic data presented in \u003ci\u003eTransnational Tortillas\u003c\/i\u003e are impressive. The authorobserved workplace practices in both factory sites and interviewed managers and workers, giving us an insight not only into the mundanities of workplace practice on the production lines of a transnational tortilla firm, but also providing a look at the everyday lives of the workers themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e - Juanita Elias (International Studies Review) \u003cp\u003eUltimately, Bank Munoz has woven together admirably the macro, meso, and micro levels of state policies, labor markets, and workplace dynamics, producing a well-written, accessible, and fascinating account of exploitation and resistance among tortilla workers along the border. \u003ci\u003eTransnational Tortillas \u003c\/i\u003eshould be of considerable value to scholars and students of labor, immigration, and global production.\u003c\/p\u003e - Gretchen Purser (Contemporary Sociology)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 their respective workforces' vulnerabilities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. The Tortilla Behemoth and Global Production \u003cbr\u003e 2. The Political Economy of Corn and Tortillas \u003cbr\u003e 3. A Tale of Two Countries: Immigration Policy and Globalization in the United States and Mexico \u003cbr\u003e 4. Hacienda CA: Immigration Regime \u003cbr\u003e 5. Hacienda BC: Gender Regime \u003cbr\u003e 6. Fighting Back? Resistance in the Age of Neoliberalism \u003cbr\u003e 7. Shop-Floor Politics in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"ILR Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52541610524952,"sku":"9780801446498","price":63.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/transnational-tortillas-race-gender-and-shop-floor-politics-in-mexico-and-the-united-states-hardback-9780801446498","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}