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Latino Question: Politics, Labouring Classes and the Next Left [Pehme köide]

  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 240 pages, kõrgus x laius: 215x135 mm, kaal: 291 g, 10 Figures; 3 Tables, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 20-Aug-2018
  • Kirjastus: Pluto Press
  • ISBN-10: 0745335241
  • ISBN-13: 9780745335247
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 240 pages, kõrgus x laius: 215x135 mm, kaal: 291 g, 10 Figures; 3 Tables, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 20-Aug-2018
  • Kirjastus: Pluto Press
  • ISBN-10: 0745335241
  • ISBN-13: 9780745335247
In the United States, the number of Latinos struggling in pursuit of the American Dream has never been greater. Millions work towards this ideal each year, only to find themselves trapped in a cycle of debt and labor. The need for a vivid, empirically grounded study on Latino politics, culture, and social issues is more essential now than ever before—The Latino Question fulfills this gap, offering a cutting-edge overview and analysis of the transformative nature of Latino politics in the United States.
 
In a radical alternative to the dominant orthodoxy in Latino political studies, Rodolfo D. Torres, Armando Ibarra, and Alfredo Carlos emphasize the importance of political economy for understanding Latino politics, culture, and social issues. Written in an accessible style, the authors draw from extensive original research and several critical traditions—including Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, and Michel Foucault—to make crucial links between socio-economic and culture-based approaches for understanding the politics of race and ethnicity in capitalist society. Notably, they present front-line evidence of how some Mexican communities across America are not only resisting, but also reinventing and transforming the predominant economic ideas. The Latino Question will be essential for anyone hoping to understand the changes in Latino communities in America today.
 

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'A provocative book ... a timely intervention on Mexican American politics and labour' -- Congressman Raul M. Grijalva 'This is a remarkable analysis of Latino politics and labour in this period of market-driven madness and unruly democracy ... a compelling critique of our political economy as well as offering us democratic alternatives' -- Rodolfo F. Acuna, Professor Emeritus and Founder, Chicana and Chicano Studies at California State University, Northridge and author of Occupied America (2014). 'Studies of Latino politics in the past have largely failed to locate their discussions in the context of the American capitalist political economy and the class divisions that it fosters and that shape so much of the country's political and cultural struggles. The Latino Question provides a pathbreaking and extraordinary account of contemporary Latino politics' -- Mario Barrera, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley and author of Race and Class in the Southwest (1979). 'This is a necessary book in these political times. Well researched and clearly written it exposes the problems and possibilities emergent when engaging and understanding the intersection of Latino politics in the American context. Rich in description and analysis the authors offer a lasting reminder that there is much and overlooked diversity amongst, across and within the matrix political category whose shorthand has too often been reduced to the word 'Latino' ' -- Marcus Anthony Hunter, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, CHAIR, Department of African American Studies, UCLA

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Winner of Latino Politics Book Award 2019 (United States).
Figures and Tables
viii
Acknowledgments ix
Foreword xii
Introduction 1(15)
Background
2(3)
The Latino Question in Latino Politics
5(5)
`Latinisation', Classes, and Inequality
10(3)
Book Organisation
13(3)
1 Mexican Mass Labour Migration in a Not-So-Changing Political Economy
16(22)
Popular Immigration Theories
17(2)
Neoclassical Economic Theory
17(1)
Social Capital Theory
18(1)
Empire Theory of Migration: An Alternative Theory
19(4)
The Political Economy of Mexican Migration to the United States
23(11)
Roots of Contemporary Mass Labour Migration
25(2)
The Mexican Miracle
27(1)
NAFTA and the Neoliberalisation of Mexico's Economy
28(3)
NAFTA's Impact on the Agricultural Sector
31(1)
Promise Unfulfilled
32(2)
The People Push Back
34(2)
Conclusions
36(2)
2 Hegemony, War of Position and Workplace Democracy
38(21)
Background
38(4)
The Changing Nature of Labour: Capitalism and Workplace Democracy
42(1)
Capitalist Hegemony and a War of Position: Human Nature, Culture, and Ideology
43(8)
Capital, Labouring Classes, Labour Unions, and the War of Position
51(5)
An Opportunity to Change the Nature of Labour
56(3)
3 Poverty in the Valley of Plenty: Mexican Families and Migrant Work in California
59(25)
Introduction
59(6)
Into the Valley
59(1)
The Labour Camps
60(2)
La Jornada
62(3)
Migration and Destination
65(7)
Post-Bracero Generations
66(2)
The IRCA Migrant Workers
68(2)
The NAFTA Generation
70(2)
The Journey---Migrating on the Season
72(3)
With the Orozcos
75(3)
Political Socialisation and Identity
78(6)
4 Racism, Capitalist Inequality, and the Cooperative Mode of Production
84(44)
Introduction
84(1)
Identity Challenges within Cooperatives
85(6)
Paternalism in a Cooperative Environment
91(6)
Moving Beyond a Politics of Difference
97(5)
Racism and the Macropolitics of Cooperatives
102(6)
Cooperatives and a Better Quality of Life
108(4)
Cooperatives, a Cultural War of Position, and the Formation of the Next Left Historical Bloc
112(3)
Neoliberal Crises and Space for Counterhegemony
115(5)
Moving from an Anti-Agenda towards a Cooperative Mode of Production
120(8)
5 Working but Poor in the City of Milwaukee: Life Stories
128(14)
Background
128(1)
Introduction
129(2)
Population Descriptive
131(1)
Employment
132(2)
Donald
132(1)
Tracy
133(1)
Neighbourhoods
134(2)
Low-Wage Immigrant Workers
136(3)
Survival Strategies
139(2)
Hope-Action-Change
141(1)
6 Latina/o Labour in Multicultural Los Angeles
142(14)
Globalisation and the Cultural Capital of Multicultural Cuisine
142(2)
Labour in the Nouvelle Restaurant
144(3)
Constructing the `Hispanic' Fantasy
147(3)
California Cuisine
150(3)
Unions as Cultural Institutions
153(1)
Conclusion
154(2)
7 Latino Futures? Cultural Political Economy and Alternative Futures
156(19)
The City as Narrative Observatory
160(3)
Answering the Call to Action
163(12)
Conclusion
175(10)
Working-Class Latinos
175(2)
The Election of Trump
177(2)
The Next Left: Movement-Building for the Future
179(6)
Notes 185(27)
Index 212
Armando Ibarra is an Associate Professor in the School for Workers at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the co-author of The Latino Question (Pluto, 2018) and co-editor of Man of Fire: Selected Writings of Ernesto Galarza (University of Illinois Press, 2013).

Alfredo Carlos is a Faculty Member in Political Science at California State University, Long Beach. He is also the Executive Director of the Foundation for Economic Democracy. His articles have appeared in Latin American Perspectives and Ethnicities. He is the co-author of The Latino Question (Pluto, 2018). Rodolfo D. Torres is Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy and Director of the Latino Urban Theory Lab at the University of California, Irvine. He is the co-author of The Latino Question (Pluto, 2018), amongst many other works. Christine Neumann-Ortiz is the founding Executive Director of Voces de la Frontera, a low-wage and immigrant workers centre, and serves on the board of a national coalition of the Fair Immigration Reform Movement, the Wisconsin Legalization Coalition, Wisconsin Citizen Action board and Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice board.