Kathleen C. Schwartzman is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona. She is the author of The Social Origins of Democratic Collapse: The First Portuguese Republic in the Global Economy.

..This book represents a brilliant example of militat or public anthropology. Its powerful descriptions of the harsh everyday lives of the migrant workers, with a style at the same time elegant and detailed..- Joon K. Kim (Labour/Le Travail) "The Chicken Trail: Following Workers, Migrants, and Corporations across the Americas examines the history of poultry production in the United States and Mexico, describing how this industry has been affected by neo-liberalism and NAFTA... This book focuses on the intertwined predicament of a 'push' of emigration from developing nations and the 'pull' of U.S. jobs. Tracing a single commodity chain, Schwartzman applies a nuanced qualitative and quantitative analysis to contest the validity of the 'commonsense' neoliberal economic model that generated such a dilemma." —Gerardo Otero, Simon Fraser University, American Journal of SociologyKathleen Schwartzman's lean and intelligent book,The Chicken Trail, is essentially aboutmovement and about linking together seemingly unconnected sites, people and developments.. Schwartzman has written a tight, readable, and persuasive book, one that clearly captures and illustrates the push and pull of globalization on labor markets, workers, and business flows. Anyone interested in globalization, trade, labor, and food chains will benefit from understanding the trail or loop that chicken has taken in the last twenty years.- Bryant Simon (Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal) Scholars interested in a more nuanced view of the dynamics of more recent historical immigration between the United States and Mexico should add The Chicken Trail to their reading list.- Joseph C. Balzer (ILRReview) The book is packed with information and insights. For once, the tables are an integral and important complement to the text, a rigorous support for the author's arguments. In the panoramic and and at the same time meticulously detailed vision of the globalisation of capital and the myriad plagues it is inflicting on our world, it is a triumph - compelling, clear and irrefutable.- Frances Webber (Race & Class)

• 1. Why Follow Chickens?2. Ethnic Succession in the South3. Where Have All the Workers Gone?4. Taylorism Invades the Hen House5. Solving Industry Crises: Pollos Y Polleros6. Squeezing Out Mexican Chicken7. Voice: Squawking At Globalization8. Exit Mexico: "Si Muero Lejos De Ti"9. The Global Dilemma: Summary and ReflectionsNotesReferencesIndex

Kathleen C. Schwartzman is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona. She is the author of The Social Origins of Democratic Collapse: The First Portuguese Republic in the Global Economy.

..This book represents a brilliant example of militat or public anthropology. Its powerful descriptions of the harsh everyday lives of the migrant workers, with a style at the same time elegant and detailed..- Joon K. Kim (Labour/Le Travail) "The Chicken Trail: Following Workers, Migrants, and Corporations across the Americas examines the history of poultry production in the United States and Mexico, describing how this industry has been affected by neo-liberalism and NAFTA... This book focuses on the intertwined predicament of a 'push' of emigration from developing nations and the 'pull' of U.S. jobs. Tracing a single commodity chain, Schwartzman applies a nuanced qualitative and quantitative analysis to contest the validity of the 'commonsense' neoliberal economic model that generated such a dilemma." —Gerardo Otero, Simon Fraser University, American Journal of SociologyKathleen Schwartzman's lean and intelligent book,The Chicken Trail, is essentially aboutmovement and about linking together seemingly unconnected sites, people and developments.. Schwartzman has written a tight, readable, and persuasive book, one that clearly captures and illustrates the push and pull of globalization on labor markets, workers, and business flows. Anyone interested in globalization, trade, labor, and food chains will benefit from understanding the trail or loop that chicken has taken in the last twenty years.- Bryant Simon (Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal) Scholars interested in a more nuanced view of the dynamics of more recent historical immigration between the United States and Mexico should add The Chicken Trail to their reading list.- Joseph C. Balzer (ILRReview) The book is packed with information and insights. For once, the tables are an integral and important complement to the text, a rigorous support for the author's arguments. In the panoramic and and at the same time meticulously detailed vision of the globalisation of capital and the myriad plagues it is inflicting on our world, it is a triumph - compelling, clear and irrefutable.- Frances Webber (Race & Class)

• 1. Why Follow Chickens?2. Ethnic Succession in the South3. Where Have All the Workers Gone?4. Taylorism Invades the Hen House5. Solving Industry Crises: Pollos Y Polleros6. Squeezing Out Mexican Chicken7. Voice: Squawking At Globalization8. Exit Mexico: "Si Muero Lejos De Ti"9. The Global Dilemma: Summary and ReflectionsNotesReferencesIndex