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• catalog abstract ""The arrival of several hundred Guatemalan-born workers in a Morganton, North Carolina, poultry plant sets the stage for this dramatic story of human struggle in an age of globalization. Virtually overnight, a once quiet industrial center nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains finds itself the new home to one of the hemisphere's oldest cultures - and to a protracted struggle for social justice." "When workers' concerns about safety and fairness spark a strike during the early 1990s and, ultimately, a unionizing campaign at Case Farms, the resulting decade-long stand-off pits a classically recalcitrant New South employer - in a state with a burgeoning immigrant population and the nation's lowest rate of unionization - against an unlikely coalition of antagonists. Mayan refugees from war-torn Guatemala, Mexican workers, and a diverse group of local allies join forces with the Laborers union, an organization determined to shake off an unsavory reputation. The ensuing clash becomes a testing ground for "new labor" workplace and legal strategies." "A story set at the intersection of globalization and community, two words not often linked, The Maya of Morganton addresses fundamental questions about the changing face of labor in the United States."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12785151.
• catalog contributor b12785152.
• catalog created "c2003.".
• catalog date "2003".
• catalog date "c2003.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
• catalog description ""The arrival of several hundred Guatemalan-born workers in a Morganton, North Carolina, poultry plant sets the stage for this dramatic story of human struggle in an age of globalization. Virtually overnight, a once quiet industrial center nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains finds itself the new home to one of the hemisphere's oldest cultures - and to a protracted struggle for social justice." "When workers' concerns about safety and fairness spark a strike during the early 1990s and, ultimately, a unionizing campaign at Case Farms, the resulting decade-long stand-off pits a classically recalcitrant New South employer - in a state with a burgeoning immigrant population and the nation's lowest rate of unionization - against an unlikely coalition of antagonists. Mayan refugees from war-torn Guatemala, Mexican workers, and a diverse group of local allies join forces with the Laborers union, an organization determined to shake off an unsavory reputation. The ensuing clash becomes a testing ground for "new labor" workplace and legal strategies." "A story set at the intersection of globalization and community, two words not often linked, The Maya of Morganton addresses fundamental questions about the changing face of labor in the United States."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "1. The Way It Is in Morganton -- 2. Flight of the Happy Farmers -- 3. How the Dead Helped to Organize the Living -- 4. No One Leader -- 5. The Workers Are Ready -- 6. Changing Places -- 7. Sticking Together.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-238) and index.".
• catalog extent "xiii, 254 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Maya of Morganton.".
• catalog identifier "0807827746 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "0807854476 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Maya of Morganton.".
• catalog issued "2003".
• catalog issued "c2003.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,".
• catalog relation "Maya of Morganton.".
• catalog spatial "North Carolina Morganton".
• catalog spatial "North Carolina Morganton.".
• catalog subject "331.6/27281075685 21".
• catalog subject "Foreign workers, Guatemalan North Carolina Morganton.".
• catalog subject "HD8039.P842 U55 2003".
• catalog subject "Labor disputes North Carolina Morganton.".
• catalog subject "Mayas North Carolina Morganton.".
• catalog subject "Poultry plants Employees Labor unions North Carolina Morganton.".
• catalog subject "Poultry plants North Carolina Morganton Employees.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. The Way It Is in Morganton -- 2. Flight of the Happy Farmers -- 3. How the Dead Helped to Organize the Living -- 4. No One Leader -- 5. The Workers Are Ready -- 6. Changing Places -- 7. Sticking Together.".
• catalog title "The Maya of Morganton : work and community in the nuevo new south / Leon Fink ; with research assistance from Alvis E. Dunn.".
• catalog type "text".