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The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South

By (author) Leon Fink

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In 2003, Leon Fink published his oral history of Guatemalan and Mexican migrants in Morganton, North Carolina, and their fight for unionization in a poultry processing plant. In the years since, Fink remained in touch with many of the people he profiled in the book, and in 2022 he returned to Morganton to interview them and talk with their children, new migrants in the area, and community leaders, particularly women. Their conversations covered a wide range of topics, including labor struggles and victories, grassroots and electoral political organizing, social activism (especially on issues affecting undocumented migrants), class mobility for second-generation migrants, and new cooperative worker-owned institutions, including a bookstore, a textile factory, and a preschool. This revised and expanded edition of The Maya of Morganton reveals what Fink found on his return to Morganton, documenting two decades of continuity and change in a new preface and chapter. Together with the original material, the book presents a comprehensive yet intimate examination of the migrant experience in western North Carolina.

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Normally shipped | Forthcoming. We are not accepting backorders for this item yet
Publisher | The University of North Carolina Press
Published date | 19 Nov 2024
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 304
Dimensions | 235 x 155 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-4696-8211-2
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BISAC | political science / labor & industrial relations


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