Transnational Tortillas: Race, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States

by Carolina Bank Muñoz

Book Overview

This book looks at the flip side of globalization: How does a company from the Global South behave differently when it also produces in the Global North? A Mexican tortilla company, "Tortimundo," has two production facilities within a hundred miles of each other, but on different sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. The workers at the two factories produce the same product with the same technology, but have significantly different work realities. This...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801474221
• ISBN13: 9780801474224
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: ILR Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher