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Becoming a lifer: Motivation and work ethic in the Alaska salmon processing industry.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Becoming a lifer: Motivation and work ethic in the Alaska salmon processing industry./
Author:	Riemann, Scott Ted.
Description:	159 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 40-01, page: 0057.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International40-01.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1404970
ISBN:	9780493264356

Becoming a lifer: Motivation and work ethic in the Alaska salmon processing industry.
Riemann, Scott Ted.

Becoming a lifer: Motivation and work ethic in the Alaska salmon processing industry. - 159 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 40-01, page: 0057.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Nevada, Reno, 2001.

Employee composition at salmon processing plants in Alaska has undergone numerous ethnic successions. In recent years, changes to the Southeast Alaskan salmon fishery have created a demand for processing workers who can devote up to three months to work with little or no time off. Further, the processing of hatchery salmon has increased the length and intensity of the season for salmon processors, many of whom commonly work 100-hour workweeks of repetitive, manual labor in remote locations. The isolated salmon processing plant at Excursion Inlet, Alaska serves as an ethnographic case study detailing the extreme work of these processors. Broad changes in the demographic workforce include the replacement of locally hired employees with out-of-state college students, and more recently, with Latino migrants. Exploring the motivations and reasons why employees continue to work despite exhaustion and return to work for subsequent seasons, this thesis focuses on these people who are called lifers by their coworkers. Incorporating narrative excerpts, this work demonstrates that different ethnic and social groups work for various reasons, but all continue to stay on the job because of their allegiance to coworkers, who are often family and friends. A new group of lifers, transnational migrant workers, is quickly becoming the majority of the workforce at Excursion Inlet, replacing former college students. This case study serves as a foundation for future, multi-sited ethnographic research. Multi-sited inquiries include the continuing decline of Native American participation in the Alaskan salmon fishery and the marked increase in transnational migrant laborers, who work many jobs as a part of their seasonal round.

ISBN: 9780493264356Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Becoming a lifer: Motivation and work ethic in the Alaska salmon processing industry.
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