Janitors, street vendors, and activists : the lives of Mexican immigrants in Silicon Valley /
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.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2006
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of 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.
