Janitors, Street Vendors, and Activists: The Lives of Mexican Immigrants in Silicon Valley Paperback - 2006 - 1st Edition
by Zlolniski, Christian
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- Title Janitors, Street Vendors, and Activists: The Lives of Mexican Immigrants in Silicon Valley
- Author Zlolniski, Christian
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 262
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press
- Date 2006-02-07
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # GOR013784217
- ISBN 9780520246430 / 0520246438
- Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.98 x 6.1 x 0.65 in (22.81 x 15.49 x 1.65 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Cultural Region: West Coast
- Ethnic Orientation: Latino
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Library of Congress subjects Mexicans - Employment - California - Santa, Alien labor, Mexican - California - Santa
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005008439
- Dewey Decimal Code 331.627
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From the rear cover
"Zlolniski makes a critical contribution to our understanding of the underside of advanced capitalism. He shows us its complexities: It is not only about misery, it is also about shaping subjective and political possibilities. If there is one concept that comes to mind it is the complexity of powerlessness."--Saskia Sassen, author of Guests and Aliens
"This is a well-written and accessible ethnography of Mexican immigrants in Silicon Valley, the working poor who live in the shadow of affluence. Zlolniski presents a nuanced analysis of the thin line between formal and informal work, how families strategize and cope with the myriad challenges wrought by poverty, and the structural limitations to human agency. Zlolniski's perceptive ethnography illuminates hidden social worlds and struggles for dignity through collective action."--Patricia Zavella, author of Women's Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley
"Stringing together multiple livelihoods, moving among wage labor, the informal economy, and political activism, the immigrants Zlolniski profiles refuse to submit completely to the structural cards stacked against them. In this important and carefully situated study, Zlolniski engages internationally relevant debates over the changing nature of work, the abandonment of employer liability, and the propensity for the media to construct myths that simplify and underestimate the hard work of immigrant families in Silicon Valley."--David Griffith, author of Fishers at Work, Workers at Sea: a Puerto Rican Journey through Labor and Refuge
