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Author Fink, Leon, 1948-

Title The Maya of Morganton : work and community in the nuevo new south / Leon Fink, with research assistance from Alvis E. Dunn
Published Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages) : illustrations
Series North Carolina History & Culture anthology
North Carolina History & Culture anthology
NC LIVE module
Contents The Way It Is in Morganton -- Flight of the Happy Farmers -- How the Dead Helped to Organize the Living -- No One Leader -- The Workers Are Ready -- Changing Places -- Sticking Together
Summary The arrival of several hundred Guatemalan-born workers in a Morganton, North Carolina poultry plant sets the stage for this story of human struggle in an age of globalization. The author follows what happened when concerns about fairness and safety sparked a strike and an unlikely coalition
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-238) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Poultry plants -- North Carolina -- Morganton -- Employees
Labor disputes -- North Carolina -- Morganton
Poultry plants -- Employees -- Labor unions -- North Carolina -- Morganton
Foreign workers, Guatemalan -- North Carolina -- Morganton
Mayas -- North Carolina -- Morganton
Poultry plants -- Employees -- Labor unions -- North Carolina
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Foreign workers, Guatemalan
Labor disputes
Mayas
Poultry plants -- Employees
Arbeitskampf
Einwanderer
Volailles -- Élevage -- États-Unis -- Caroline du Nord (États-Unis)
Travail -- Conflits -- États-Unis -- Caroline du Nord (États-Unis)
Mayas -- États-Unis -- Caroline du Nord (États-Unis)
North Carolina
North Carolina -- Morganton
Mittelamerika
North Carolina
Form Electronic book
Author Dunn, Alvis E
ISBN 080786241X
9780807862414
9780807827741
0807827746
9780807854471
0807854476