Migrant Farmworkers in 'Plastic Factories’ Investigating Work-Life Struggles
This book provides a fine-grained ethnographic examination of the everyday negotiations and conflicts taking place in greenhouses and packinghouses in an agricultural district in south-eastern Italy (Sicily). In a highly competitive global scenario, driven by multinational corporations and large ret...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2021, 2021
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2021 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Entering the workplaces
- Chapter 2. What does it mean to work by the day? Trust relationships, job contracts, formal and informal regulations
- Chapter 3. The body at work: Performativity, Weakness, Beauty
- Chapter 4. Struggling for a fair wage: negotiations and conflicts around the salary
- Conclusion