Latino Question

Armando Ibarra is an Associate Professor in the School for Workers at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the co-author of The Latino Question (Pluto, 2018) and co-editor of Man of Fire: Selected Writings of Ernesto Galarza (University of Illinois Press, 2013).Alfredo Carlos is a Faculty Member in Political Science at California State University, Long Beach. He is also the Executive Director of the Foundation for Economic Democracy. His articles have appeared in Latin American Perspectives and Ethnicities. He is the co-author of The Latino Question (Pluto, 2018). Rodolfo D. Torres is Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy and Director of the Latino Urban Theory Lab at the University of California, Irvine. He is the co-author of The Latino Question (Pluto, 2018), amongst many other works. Christine Neumann-Ortiz is the founding Executive Director of Voces de la Frontera, a low-wage and immigrant workers centre, and serves on the board of a national coalition of the Fair Immigration Reform Movement, the Wisconsin Legalization Coalition, Wisconsin Citizen Action board and Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice board.

• Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction 1. Mexican Mass Labour Migration in a Not-So-Changing Political Economy 2. Hegemony, War of Position and Workplace Democracy 3. Poverty in the Valley of Plenty: Mexican Families and Migrant Work in California 4. Racism, Capitalist Inequality, and the Cooperative Mode of Production 5. Working but Poor in the City of Milwaukee: Life Stories 6. Feasting on Latina/o Labour in Multicultural Los Angeles 7. After Latino Metropolis: Cultural Political Economy and Alternative Futures Conclusion Notes Index

'A provocative book ... a timely intervention on Mexican American politics and labour'