Scratching Out a Living: Latinos, Race, and Work in the Deep South

How has Latino immigration transformed the South? In what ways is the presence of these newcomers complicating efforts to organize for workplace justice? Scratching Out a Living takes readers deep into Mississippi’s chicken processing plants and communities, where large numbers of Latin American migrants were recruited in the mid—1990s to labor alongside an established African American workforce in some of the most dangerous and lowest—paid jobs in the country. As America’s voracious appeti...