Transnational Tortillas Race, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States

This book looks at the flip side of globalization: How does a company from the Global South behave differently when it also produces in the Global North? A Mexican tortilla company, "Tortimundo," has two production facilities within a hundred miles of each other, but on different sides of...

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