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.
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| Formaat: | Licensed eBooks |
| Taal: | Engels |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©2006.
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| Online toegang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppv3s |
Inhoudsopgave:
- 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.