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Acknowledgments | ||
Pt. I | Introduction | |
1 | The Growth of Low-Wage Labor in the Production of Food | 3 |
Theoretical, Methodological, and Empirical Contributions of the Current Work | 5 | |
Methodological Considerations | 9 | |
Seafood Processing, Poultry Processing, and Agriculture Within the Culture and Political Economy of the Rural South | 14 | |
2 | An Anthropology of Labor under Advanced Capitalism | 25 |
Theoretical Background: Relationships Between International and Domestic Labor Processes | 28 | |
Pt. II | Industry Organization: A Comparative Overview | |
3 | Seafood Processing in Eastern North Carolina: An Overview | 51 |
General Contours of the Industry | 52 | |
Perceived Problems: Welfare, Low Wages, and the Labor Supply | 56 | |
Influences of Levels of Regional Development on Seafood Processing | 61 | |
Domestic Production and Labor Market Dynamics | 65 | |
Work Settings | 67 | |
Organization of Work | 70 | |
Work Organization, Recruitment, and Dependence on the Seafood Industry | 77 | |
4 | The Poultry Industry in the Southeast United States | 83 |
Changes in the Poultry Industry: The 1940s to Today | 84 | |
The Influence of the Local Economy on the Poultry Industry | 89 | |
Wages, Benefits, and Union Activity in the Four Regions | 93 | |
Work Organization in the Industry | 96 | |
Conclusion: A Comparative Discussion of Seafood and Poultry Production | 105 | |
Pt. III | Household and Community in Patterns of Labor Control | |
5 | Shucking Shellfish, Picking Crab: A Profile of North Carolina Seafood Processing Workers | 115 |
Patterns of Work and Unemployment in Seafood Processing Workers' Households | 116 | |
Skilled and Unskilled in Workers' Households: Comparisons of Ethnicity and Seasonality | 124 | |
Recruitment | 125 | |
Household Complexity | 127 | |
6 | Foundations of Divergence Within the Seafood Processing Labor Force | 135 |
The Seafood Processing Labor Force: An Exercise in Classification | 136 | |
Labor Force Implications of Limited Entry and Coastal Development | 139 | |
7 | Family, Community, and the Construction of Labor Markets in the U.S. Poultry Industry | 149 |
Sexual and Ethnic Compositions of Plant Work Forces | 150 | |
Changes in Labor Force Compositions Over Time | 152 | |
Network Recruitment | 159 | |
North Georgia and North Carolina Revisited: 1988 to 1989 | 163 | |
8 | Swollen Hearts, Swollen Hands: Labor Relations in the U.S. Poultry Industry | 173 |
Occupational Injury as a Reflection of Labor Relations | 174 | |
Injury, Worker Productivity, and Labor Control | 176 | |
The Developing Role of New Immigrants in Industry Labor Control Strategies | 183 | |
Formal Organizations, Worker Organization Among Immigrants, and the Overlap Between Agricultural and Processing Plant Labor Markets | 185 | |
Native Workers' Responses to New Immigrants in the Plants | 190 | |
Pt. IV | Conclusion: Case Studies in Theoretical Perspective | |
9 | Towards a Theory of Low-Wage Labor Under Advanced Capitalism | 199 |
Background to the Development of Legal Imported Labor | 206 | |
10 | Networks, Reproductive Labor, and the Manipulation of Community in the Formation of Low-Income Populations | 217 |
Theoretical Representations of Labor | 218 | |
Reconsidering Notions: An Anthropology of Low-Wage Labor Under Advanced Capitalism | 223 | |
Appendix A | 235 | |
Notes | 237 | |
References | 243 | |
Index | 263 |
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