Janitors, street vendors, and activists : the lives of Mexican immigrants in Silicon Valley /

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.

Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Zlolniski, Christian (Awdur)
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Berkeley : University of California Press ©2006.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppv3s
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • Mexican immigrants in Silicon Valley
  • The subcontracting of Mexican janitors in the high-tech industry
  • Working in the informal economy
  • Mexican families in Santech
  • Community politics in the barrio
  • Conclusion : subproletarians in a postindustrial economy.