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By Christian Zlolniski

This hugely obtainable, engagingly written ebook exposes the underbelly of California’s Silicon Valley, the main profitable high-technology zone on this planet, in a vibrant ethnographic learn of Mexican immigrants hired in Silicon Valley’s low-wage jobs. Christian Zlolniski’s on-the-ground research demonstrates how international forces have integrated those staff as an essential component of the economic system via subcontracting and different versatile exertions practices and explores how those exertions practices have in flip affected operating stipulations and employees’ day-by-day lives. In Zlolniski’s research, those immigrants don't emerge only as sufferers of a harsh economic system; regardless of the hindrances they face, they're reworking exertions and neighborhood politics, infusing new blood into hard work unions, and hard exclusionary notions of civic and political club. This richly textured and complicated portrait of 1 neighborhood opens a window onto the way forward for Mexican and different Latino immigrants within the new U.S. economy.

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