Pickles and pickets after NAFTA: Globalization, agribusiness, the United States-Mexico food-chain, and farm-worker struggles in North Carolina
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام ساير پديدآوران
;supervisor Gallagher, Charles
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Georgia State University: United States -- Georgia
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
: 2007
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
245 pages
یادداشتهای مربوط به پایان نامه ها
جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن
Ph.D.
کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده
, Georgia State University: United States -- Georgia
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
This dissertation analyzes the changes introduced in the U.S.-Mexico food-chain, and the ways in which the multinational corporations that control the food industrial complex from seed to shelves have altered the labor dynamics of farm-workers. Over the past two decades, U.S. agribusiness and big retail-chains such as Wal-Mart have reached the top of the food pyramid and have come to control the process of production, supply, and distribution of agricultural inputs and perishable food. My study analyzes the impact of U.S. agribusiness on growers and farm-workers, focusing on how the integration of agriculture into a "free-trade" world economy has affected the working conditions of farm-labor. It explores how migrant farm-workers have responded to their deteriorating labor conditions with a campaign led by the Farm-Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) that involved innovative cross-border grassroots tactics and strategy. It traces how this campaign culminated in the achievement of the first labor contract for guest-workers in U.S. history. Based on participant observation, interviews with the workers and their union leaders, and the analysis of workers' grievances, I conclude that such a reorganization of the farm-labor movement at the grassroots level is crucial to the creation of a food-chain that is capable of satisfying the needs of production and consumption for the global population.Keywords. Agriculture, North Carolina, Mexico, Agribusiness, Farm-labor, Wal- Mart, FLOC, Farm-Labor Movement
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Management
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Minority & ethnic groups
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Sociology
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North American Free Trade Agreement
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Multinational corporations
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Agribusiness
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Food processing industry
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Farmworkers
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Retail stores
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Working conditions
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Globalization
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Labor unions
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Studies
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
Food chain
اصطلاح موضوعی
Farm worker
اصطلاح موضوعی
United States
اصطلاح موضوعی
Mexico
اصطلاح موضوعی
NAFTA
اصطلاح موضوعی
Globalization
اصطلاح موضوعی
Agribusiness
اصطلاح موضوعی
North Carolina
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