Kids Library Home

Welcome to the Kids' Library!

Search for books, movies, music, magazines, and more.

     
Available items only
Print Material
Author Barndt, Deborah.

Title Tangled routes : women, work, and globalization on the tomato trail / Deborah Barndt.

Imprint Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2008.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  331.4816648 B259t 2008    ---  Available
Edition 2nd ed.
Description xxi, 335 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Across space and through time: tomatl meets the corporate tomato -- Frames and filters: theoretical and methodological approaches -- Arch deluxe with a smile: women never stop at McDonald's -- You can count on us: scanning cashiers at Loblaws Supermarkets -- On the move for food: truckers and transnational migrants -- Picking and packing for the north: agricultural workers at Empaque Santa Rosa -- Crossing sectors and borders: weaving a holistic analysis -- Signs of hope: taking action for justice and sustainability.
Subject Women in the food industry -- Mexico.
Women agricultural laborers -- Mexico.
Foreign trade and employment -- North America.
Tomatoes -- North America.
ISBN 9780742555570 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0742555577 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780742555563 (cloth : alk. paper)
0742555569 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
Available items only