Graduation Year
2015
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Environmental Analysis
Reader 1
Tomas Summer Sandoval
Reader 2
Suyapa Portillo
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© 2014 Adi D. Salinas Ferreira
Abstract
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 tensions as well as differences in the owners expectations of labor output by race may arise. The study interviews undocumented workers and documents their experience working in fish processing plants as well as provides historical context.
Recommended Citation
Salinas Ferreira, Adi D., "Immigrant Labor in Fish Processing in the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia and Current Undocumented Labor" (2015). Pomona Senior Theses. 130.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/130
