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Bank Muñoz, Carolina

Transnational tortillas : race, gender, and shop-floor politics in Mexico and the United States / Carolina Bank Muñoz. - Ithaca (N. Y.) ; London: Cornell University Press, 2008. - xi, 202 p.: 21cm.

"ILR/Cornell paperbacks"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p.[183]-193) and index

The tortilla behemoth and global production -- The political economy of corn and tortillas -- A tale of two countries : immigration policy and globalization in the United States and Mexico -- Hacienda CA : immigration regime -- Hacienda BC : gender regime -- Fighting back? resistance in the age of neoliberalism -- Shop-floor politics in the twenty-first century.

ISBN: 080144649X (cloth : alk. paper) 9780801446498 (cloth : alk. paper) 0801474221 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780801474224 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Tortilla industry--Mexico--Baja California (Peninsula).
Tortilla industry--California.
Factory system--California.
Industrial relations--Mexico--Baja California (Peninsula).
Industrial relations--California.
Women--Employment--Mexico--Baja California (Peninsula).
Alien labor, Mexican--California
Industria de Tortilla--Mexico--Baja California (Peninsula)
Sistema de factoria--California
Relaciones industriales--Mexico--Baja California (Peninsula)
Mujer--Empleomanía--Mexico--Baja California (Península)
Mano de obra extranjea mexicana--California

Subjects--Index Terms: Economic sociology. Sociología económica

LC Class. No.: HD 9330 / B218t 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 338.4