The everyday civil war: Migrant working men, within and against capital

Ethnography

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 243-267

  de Genova, Nicholas ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

capital labor relation; complicity; discipline; masculinity; Mexican migrants; politics of ethnography; struggle; surveillance; workplace literacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249150423     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1466138106067055     Document Type: Article

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