My chapter, coauthored with my Louisiana Tech colleague David M. Anderson, examines the experiences of workers in foreign-owned manufacturing facilities in the United States since the 1970s. We argue that to understand why workers in flagship-industry factories, like auto assembly plants, have rejected traditional postwar labor institutions like unions, we have to consider how the influx of transnational capital created new worker identities independent of those traditional institutions. Workers in Nissan’s plant in Smyrna, Tennessee, for instance, saw themselves as a “chosen” class, benefiting from the new kinds of bargains globalization afforded.