| Jones's Minimal: Low-Wage Labor in the United States Contributor(s): Griffith, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791413101 ISBN-13: 9780791413104 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations |
| Dewey: 331.798 |
| LCCN: 91-47584 |
| Series: Suny the Anthropology of Work |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.84 lbs) 266 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book addresses the ways employers in American industries use race, gender, ethnicity, and institutions of the state and the church to manipulate workers' networks and communities, and ultimately, to control the supplies and characteristics of their labor. Griffith focuses on the labor processes in the seafood and poultry processing industries, paying particular attention to the growing use of new immigrant workers, women, and minority workers. He traces relationships between capitalist expansion overseas in peasant and tribal societies and evolving labor practices of advanced capitalism in the United States. As such, his work offers a critique of conventional, neoclassical economic approaches to the study of labor. |