The Maya of Morganton
Work and Community in the Nuevo New South
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10240698 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Allan F Burns, Allan Burns (corresponding author), Alvis E Dunn (0000-0003-1637-523X), A Dunn |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 975 |
| Publication date | 2004-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South, Leon Fink, 2003 |
| Venue | The Journal of Southern History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4642 • E-ISSN: 2325-6893 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/27648638 |
| OpenAlex | W1597102513 |
| Language | EN |
The arrival of several hundred Guatemalan-born workers in a Morganton, North Carolina, poultry plant sets the stage for this dramatic story of human struggle in an age of globalization. When laborers' concerns about safety and fairness spark a strike and, ultimately, a unionizing campaign at Case Farms, the resulting decade-long standoff pits a recalcitrant New South employer against an unlikely coalition of antagonists. Mayan refugees from war-torn Guatemala, Mexican workers, and a diverse group of local allies join forces with the Laborers union. The ensuing clash becomes a testing ground for workplace and legal strategies. In the process, the nation's fastest-growing immigrant region encounters a new struggle for social justice. Using scores of interviews, Leon Fink gives voice to a remarkably resilient people. He shows that, paradoxically, what sustains these global travelers are the ties of local community. Whether one is finding a job, going to church, joining a soccer team, or building a union, kin and linguistic connections to the place of one's birth prove crucial in negotiating today's global marketplace. A story set at the intersection of globalization and community, two words not often linked, The Maya of Morganton addresses fundamental questions about the changing face of labor in the United States
Archaeology · Geography · Maya · Work (physics · Engineering · Labor Movements and Unions · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
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Keep moving
Enforcing Borders in the Nuevo South
El transnacionalismo y la movilización colectiva de la comunidad maya en Júpiter, Florida Ambigüedades en la identidad transnacional y la religión vivida
Diasporas, Philanthropy and Hometown Associations
Flows and Counterflows
Historical Sediments of Competing Gender Models in Indigenous Guatemala
When Mothers and Fathers Migrate North
Chiapas
When Community Comes Home to Roost
Seeing Immigrants
From Workers to Owners
What’s “Justice and Dignity” Got to Do with It
Guatemala's Ladino and Maya Migra Landscapes
A Place to Speak Our Minds Locating Women's Activism Where North Meets South
Constructing Citizenship Without a Licence
Mexican Trans-Migrants and Their Experience on Both Sides of the Border
Maya USA
As Others Pluck Fruit Off the Tree of Opportunity
Shifting Trends in Central American Migration
You Earn Money by Suffering Pain
Competing claims of victimhood? Foreign and domestic victims of trafficking in the United States
Builders of Empire
Listening to el Southside
The Historical Maya and Maya Histories
Dispatches from the “Viejo” New South
Rewriting the Mexican immigrant narrative
Excepting/accepting the South
Sleuthing Central American Identity and History in the New Latino South
US Central Americans
Ka Tzij
New Southern Neighbors
Racialized illegality
Winning and losing in North Carolina – Cultural citizenship struggles and lessons for Latino newspapers
Barriers to abortion facing Mexican immigrants in North Carolina
Mexican immigrant experiences with discrimination in southern Appalachia
New Americans' in a 'New-South' city? Immigrant and refugee politics in the Music City
Mind Forg'd Manacles" and Recent Pathways to "New" Labor Histories
Unpacking Longings to Return
Land, ethnic, and gender change
Being a man in the horse capital
Organizing Marx's Multitude
Neoliberal restructuring, neoregulation, and the Mexican poultry industry
Alternative Development and Applied Anthropology in Appalachia
Meat processing and Garden City, KS
Nostalgia and precarious placemaking in southern poultry worlds
Viewpoint
Crafting connections
Migrant Labor and Global Commons
Struggling against U. S. Labor's Decline under Late Capitalism
Meatpacking and the Transformation of Rural Communities
Workers and the land in US history
It knocked this city to its knees’
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |