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TY - BOOK
T1 - Keep the union at bay
T2 - The racial dimensions of anti-union practices in U.S. agriculture and the long fight for farm-labor representation.
AU - Coin, Francesca
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - In the United States, farm-workers are traditionally excluded from the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and from the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) which guarantee basic rights to workers, including the right to organize and engage in collective bargaining. In a sense, farm-workers are confined to a secondary market characterized by substandard wages and labor conditions. This study explores how migrant farm-workers in North Carolina have responded to their labor conditions with a campaign that culminated in the achievement of the first labor contract for guest-workers in US history. Based on ethnographic research, it reflects upon the role of grassroots organizing in challenging a culture of racism that has remained dangerously alive in many parts of our society.
AB - In the United States, farm-workers are traditionally excluded from the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and from the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) which guarantee basic rights to workers, including the right to organize and engage in collective bargaining. In a sense, farm-workers are confined to a secondary market characterized by substandard wages and labor conditions. This study explores how migrant farm-workers in North Carolina have responded to their labor conditions with a campaign that culminated in the achievement of the first labor contract for guest-workers in US history. Based on ethnographic research, it reflects upon the role of grassroots organizing in challenging a culture of racism that has remained dangerously alive in many parts of our society.
KW - Agribusiness
KW - migration in rural regions
KW - Right-to-work legislation
KW - migration policies
KW - Political economy
KW - white supremacy
KW - racism
KW - Trump
U2 - 10.14277/978-88-6969-222-2/CultLav-7
DO - 10.14277/978-88-6969-222-2/CultLav-7
M3 - Book
BT - Keep the union at bay
PB - Edizioni Ca' Foscari
CY - Venice
ER -