{"product_id":"transnational-tortillas-carolina-bank-muoz-9780801474224","title":"Transnational Tortillas: Race, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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 \"global factory\" gives Carolina Bank Muz an ideal opportunity to reveal how management regimes and company policy on each side of the border apply different strategies to exploit their respective workforces' vulnerabilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author's in-depth ethnographic fieldwork shows that the U.S. factory is characterized by an \"immigration regime\" and the Mexican factory by a \"gender regime.\" In the California factory, managers use state policy and laws related to immigration status to pit documented and undocumented workers against each other. Undocumented workers are subject to harsher punishment, night-shift work, and lower pay. In the Baja California factory, managers sexually harass women--who make up most of the workforce--and create divisions between light- and dark-skinned women, forcing them to compete for managerial attention, which they understand equates with job security. In describing and analyzing the differences in working conditions between the two plants, Bank Muz provides important new insights into how, in a globalized economy, managerial strategies for labor control are determined by the interaction of state policies and labor market conditions with race, gender, and class at the point of production.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carolina Bank Muz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801474221\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801474224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e ILR Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 6.32w x 0.51d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/17\/2008 pg. 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2008 pg. 114","brand":"Carolina Bank Muz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44054865543423,"sku":"9780801474224","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0383de6e-610d-42d1-9b6a-c493686a3a47.jpg?v=1685032436","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/transnational-tortillas-carolina-bank-muoz-9780801474224","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}