Jones's Minimal: Low-Wage Labor in the United States Book

	Tables and Figures
	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