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Immigrant Labor In Fish Processing In The Pacific Northwest And British Columbia And Current Undocumented Labor, Adi D. Salinas Ferreira
Immigrant Labor In Fish Processing In The Pacific Northwest And British Columbia And Current Undocumented Labor, Adi D. Salinas Ferreira
Pomona Senior Theses
The beginning of industrialized fish processing plants reveals themes of labor exploitation, racial and gender segregation, and antagonistic legislation that have continued well into the present. Today in the Pacific North West, the majority of workers are Latino and many among them are undocumented or DACAmented. Many aspects of the work conditions in salmon canneries back in the late 1800’s to the mid 1900’s and the work conditions in present day fish processing plants have not changed. Many jobs in a fish processing plant remain gendered, and when there is more than one race working in a single plant racial …