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Author Zlolniski, Christian, author.

Title Janitors, street vendors, and activists : the lives of Mexican immigrants in Silicon Valley / Christian Zlolniski
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Contents Mexican immigrants in Silicon Valley -- The subcontracting of Mexican janitors in the high-tech industry -- Working in the informal economy -- Mexican families in Santech -- Community politics in the barrio -- Conclusion : subproletarians in a postindustrial economy
Summary This highly accessible, engagingly written book exposes the underbelly of California's Silicon Valley, the most successful high-technology region in the world, in a vivid ethnographic study of Mexican immigrants employed in Silicon Valley's low-wage jobs
Analysis america
california economy
california
community politics
economic analysis
ethnographers
ethnographic study
globalism
immigrant experience
janitors
labor policies
labor politics
labor practices
latino immigrants
low wage jobs
mexican americans
mexican immigrants
mexico
nonfiction study
regional study
silicon valley
social activists
street vendors
subcontracting
technological developments
united states
us economy
working conditions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Mexicans -- Employment -- California -- Santa Clara County -- Santa Clara Valley
Foreign workers, Mexican -- California -- Santa Clara County -- Santa Clara Valley
Unskilled labor -- California -- Santa Clara County -- Santa Clara Valley
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Foreign workers, Mexican
Mexicans -- Employment
Unskilled labor
California -- Santa Clara County
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520939172
0520939174
1423745531
9781423745532
1598759272
9781598759273
9780520246416
0520246411
9780520246430
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9786612772009
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1282772007
9781282772007