Mangos, Chiles, and Truckers: The Business of Transnationalism

by Robert R. Alvarez, Robert Alvarez Jr., Robert R. Álvarez Jr.

Book Overview

Mangos, Chiles, and Truckers illuminates how local groups and individuals engage the global world and capitalism in creative ways. Robert Alvarez analyzes how the produce and trucking industries in Mexico affect the organization of work, community, and social space for miles on either side of the international border. Taking an ethnographic approach, Alvarez focuses on the impact transnational economic policies like NAFTA have had on growers of mangos...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816645086
• ISBN13: 9780816645084
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"