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Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora: Life Histories of Women Workers in Tijuana (LLILAS Translations from Latin America Series)
Norma Iglesias Prieto , and
Gabrielle Winkler
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"Poignant and powerful, this work is a tribute to the dignity of the human spirit. It should be required reading for policymakers on both sides of the political border separating Mexico and the United States."
—Vicki L. Ruiz, Professor of History and Women's Studies, Arizona State University
Published originally as
La flor mas bella de la maquiladora, this beautifully written book is based on interviews the author conducted with more than fifty Mexican women who work in the assembly plants along the U.S.-Mexico border. A descriptive analytic study conducted in the late 1970s, the book uses compelling testimonials to detail the struggles these women face.
The experiences of women in maquiladoras are attracting increasing attention from scholars, especially in the context of ongoing Mexican migration to the country's northern frontier and in light of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This book is among the earliest accounts of the physical and psychological toll exacted from the women who labor in these plants. Iglesias Prieto captures the idioms of these working women so that they emerge as dynamic individuals, young and articulate personalities, inexorably engaged in the daily struggle to change the fundamental conditions of their exploitation.
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Tangled Routes follows a corporate tomato from a Mexican field through the United States to a Canadian table, examining in its wake the dynamic relationship between production and consumption, work and technology, health and environment, bio-diversity and cultural diversity. Three case studies--a Mexican agribusiness, a Canadian supermarket, and a U.S.-owned fast-food restaurant--offer a view of globalization from above (corporate profiles), globalization from below (stories of women who plant, pick, pack, scan, slice, and sell tomatoes), and the other globalization (acts of resistance and alternatives to the corporate model).
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Tangled Routes.......2007-06-27
Deborah Barndt offers the best analysis I have read of the philosophical foundations that allowed North Americans to lose our connections with food. She explores how our approach to food represents a larger worldview that believes it is possible to reduce everything down to logical and quantifiable formulas. It also sees nature (and natural food and natural processes) as somewhat dangerous both physically and culturally, so that we feel a need to tame nature and make it work in our favor. She also then ties this analysis to the lives of real people, so that we can see how such an approach actually plays out in our society.
Although the text is dense at times, this is worth the time and thought it might take. EXCELLENT!
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In the Mexican maquiladora industry—the string of U.S. export-processing subsidiaries on the Mexican side of the border—women constitute the majority of workers. This comprehensive study of the maquilas in Mexicali, the capital of Baja California, analyzes the roles of these women workers and dispels the myth that they are docile and downtrodden. Rather, they employ creative responses to their work and domestic lives.
Susan Tiano investigates women assemblers in electronic and apparel maquilas as well as women workers in service jobs. Comparing the organizational structure and working conditions in these industries, she identifies trends in women's economic activity. What emerges is a multihued portrait of women who take on jobs outside the home for a variety of reasons and who are conscious of their productive and reproductive influence on a developing international division of labor. Linking fertility, age, education, and marital status to women's participation in the maquila industry, Tiano explores the gender consciousness of the women workers and of the men who attempt to dominate them, both on the line and in the home.
The processes and dynamics illuminated in Patriarchy on the Line resonate in other urban labor markets undergoing similar changes as transnational production becomes a global reality.
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This handy book introduces the spicy cooking of the Southwest with traditional dishes, fast and easy recipes, and new creations using traditional ingredients. Taste sensations include Mexican chocolate, hot taco dip, green chile cheese ball, minute chili, chimichangas, quesadillas, breakfast burritos, Uncle Bill's smoked sausage, calabacitas, easy fresh apple cake, and lemon cream pie. This book also gives locations and phone numbers of New Mexico museums, pueblos, and reservations—vital information for tourists. A timeline profiles the area's history. A fact-packed book that readers will love!
Customer Reviews:
Land of Enchantment.......2000-11-05
This charming gift item includes interesting historical, geographic, cultural and culinary information as well as over 80 recipes for tasty items such as Guacamole, Chili Bean Dip, Tamale Pie, Flan, and Margarita Pie. The book is illustrated with petroglyphs, and gives locations and phone numbers of New Mexico museums, pueblos and reservations-vital data for tourists. A timeline profiles the area's history, and a short essay clarifies the controversial spelling and pronunciation of "chile," then gives tips for "Chile Antidotes"! The reader will be certifiably enthusiastic about N.M.
This makes for a wonderful gift!
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In this innovative exploration of the interaction between economic processes and social relations, Lourdes Benería and Martha Roldán examine the effect of homework on gender and family dynamics. Their fieldwork in Mexico City during 1981-82 has enabled them to provide important new empirical data on industrial piecework performed by women as well as intimate glimpses of these women's lives which place that piecework in context. Tracing the stages of production from home to jobber, workshop, and manufacturer (often a multinational corporation), the authors demonstrate the way in which the work and lives of these women are connected through subcontracting to the national and often international system of production.
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During the 1960s, in such works as Man the Hunter, scholars constructed a model of cultural evolution in which men were characterized as "cooperative hunters of big game." Women fit neatly into this model, such books as Woman the Gatherer explained
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Born of thirteen years of field research, this interdisciplinary work explores the complex intersections of technology, class, gender, and ecology in the transnational milieu of Mexico's maquiladoras, foreign-owned assembly plants located along the U.S. border. Devon Peña examines workplace and community struggles from the perspective of the women who work in the maquiladoras. He describes the workers' struggles for workplace democracy, social justice, and sustainable development. He also observes the circulation of struggle from the factory to the community, highlighting the efforts to establish worker-owned cooperatives in the border region during the 1970s and 1980s. Female maquila workers are typically portrayed as passive, apolitical, and easily exploited. This book, however, presents an opposing view, investigating the "subaltern life of the shop floor"--the workers' informal methods of resistance to hazardous conditions, sexual harassment, and managerial tyranny. Using survey research, oral history, discourse analysis, and site ethnography, the author develops a cogent critique of labor-process theory, a critique grounded on his extensive study of actual workplace politics in the maquiladoras. The Terror of the Machine is a trenchant analysis of the political, cultural, and environmental effects of maquila industrialization and an eloquent and persuasive call for alternatives in the direction of ecologically sustainable and culturally appropriate modes of development.
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This digital document is an article from Business Mexico, published by American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico A.C. on July 1, 2003. The length of the article is 2722 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: 15 minutes with...Alejandra Barrios Richard: head of Mexico City ambulante group talks tough on indifferent government, money-grubbing shop owners and philanthropic poses of Carlos Slim.(Interview)
Author: Matthew Brayman
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Business Mexico (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2003
Publisher: American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico A.C.
Volume: 13
Issue: 7
Page: 8(5)
Article Type: Interview
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This digital document is an article from Business Mexico, published by American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico A.C. on September 1, 2004. The length of the article is 634 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: The Dubliner.(Inside Eating Out)
Author: Tara FitzGerald
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Business Mexico (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2004
Publisher: American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico A.C.
Volume: 14
Issue: 9
Page: 58(1)
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Samuel Gompers and Organized Labor in America
Harold C. Livesay
Manufacturer: Waveland Press
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It was the particular talent of Samuel Gompers to have perceived the realities of the position of working people in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century during a period of massive industrialization and large-scale immigration. Gompers was part of the working class himself. Pragmatically, he developed a pattern of action and a philosophy that enabled one segment of the labor force to organize itself effectively. Those who joined his American Federation of Labor were largely skilled workers. Although the great mass of industrial employees was still unorganized when Gompers died, the forms he outlined and the procedures he followed provided the basis for the ultimate formation of a powerful American labor movement. Livesay's thoughtful book clarifies the main forces that operated not only in the life of this colorful figure but also in the economic and social background against which Samuel Gompers acted.
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Excellent biog of the early American labor leader.
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