Working women into the borderlands / Sonia Hernández ; foreword by Sterling Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hernández, Sonia, 1976-

Contributor:

Evans, Sterling, 1959-

Series:

Connecting the greater west series.

Connecting the greater west series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women labor union members--Mexico, North--History--20th century.

Women labor union members.

Women in the labor movement--Mexican-American Border Region--History--20th century.

Women in the labor movement.

Women in the labor movement--Mexico, North--History--20th century.

Mexican American women labor union members--Mexican-American Border Region--History--20th century.

Mexican American women labor union members.

Economic development--Mexico, North--20th century.

Economic development.

Economic development--Mexican-American Border Region--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station, Texas : Texas A&M University Press, 2014.

Summary:

In Working Women into the Borderlands, author Sonia Hernández sheds light on how women's labor was shaped by US capital in the northeast region of Mexico and how women's labor activism simultaneously shaped the nature of foreign investment and relations between Mexicans and Americans. As capital investments fueled the growth of heavy industries in cities and ports such as Monterrey and Tampico, women's work complemented and strengthened their male counterparts' labor in industries which were historically male-dominated.As Hernández reveals, women laborers were expected

Contents:

Introduction: Norteño history as borderlands history

Selling the Norteño borderlands: capital, land, and labor

Peasant women's work in a changing countryside during the Porfiriato

"We cannot suffer any longer from the patrón's bad treatment": everyday forms of peasant negotiation

(En)Gendering revolution in the borderlands: revolucionarias, combatants, and supporters in the northeast

Women's labor and activism in the greater Mexican borderlands, 1910-1930

Class, gender, and power in the postrevolutionary borderlands

Epilogue

Appendix 1. Selected mutual-aid societies and related collective organizations in the Mexican Northeast, 1880-1910

Appendix 2. Selected organizations in Texas affiliated with the Partido Liberal Mexicano, 1911-1917

Appendix 3. Selected estatutos (by-laws) and artículos of the Unión de Obreras "Fraternidad Femenil" (Xicotencatl, Tamaulipas).

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4619-5829-6

1-62349-139-8

OCLC:

871258280