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What’s “Justice and Dignity” Got to Do with It?: Migrant Vulnerability, Corporate Complicity, and the State
Human Organization  ( IF 1.322 ) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 , DOI: 10.17730/1938-3525-80.2.105
Angela C. Stuesse

In 2001, Tyson Foods, one of the world’s leading chicken processors, was indicted on charges that it recruited undocumented migrants to work in its plants across the rural United States. In the following years, Tyson engaged in an operation to purge the largest chicken plant in the country of hundreds of unionized immigrant workers, relying heavily on the Social Security Administration’s controversial “No-Match” program to shape its termination practices. In response, a local campaign called for “Justice and Dignity” in the form of an improved corporate policy that would simultaneously serve the interests of the company, its workers, and their communities. This article chronicles that localized struggle and its national aftermath, illuminating the far-reaching effects federal “employer sanctions” have had on transnational corporations and their policymakers, on workers of different backgrounds, and on strategies used to advocate for worker rights. Politically engaged ethnography reveals how differentially positioned actors navigate and experience the neoliberal immigration and employment laws of the United States while deepening our understanding of the workings of the poultry industry, the recruitment of immigrant workers, and the anthropology of organized labor.

中文翻译:

“正义与尊严”与它有什么关系?:移民脆弱性、企业共谋和国家

2001 年,世界领先的鸡肉加工商之一泰森食品公司被指控招募无证移民在其遍布美国农村的工厂工作。在接下来的几年里,泰森公司开展了一项行动,以清除该国最大的鸡肉工厂,该工厂拥有数百名加入工会的移民工人,严重依赖社会保障局有争议的“不匹配”计划来塑造其解雇做法。作为回应,一场地方运动呼吁以改进的公司政策的形式实现“正义与尊严”,同时为公司、员工及其社区的利益服务。这篇文章记录了当地的斗争及其全国性后果,阐明联邦“雇主制裁”对跨国公司及其政策制定者、不同背景的工人以及用于倡导工人权利的战略产生的深远影响。参与政治的民族志揭示了不同定位的行为者如何驾驭和体验美国的新自由主义移民和就业法,同时加深我们对家禽业运作、移民工人招聘和有组织劳工的人类学的理解。
更新日期:2021-06-01
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