Fires on the border : the passionate politics of labor organizing on the Mexican frontera / Rosemary Hennessy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hennessy, Rosemary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Offshore assembly industry--Employees--Labor unions--Mexican-American Border Region.

Offshore assembly industry.

Labor unions--Organizing--Mexican-American Border Region.

Labor unions.

Women offshore assembly industry workers--Mexican-American Border Region.

Women offshore assembly industry workers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Fires on the Border takes up questions of labor and community organizing-its "affect-culture"-on Mexico's northern border from the early 1970's to the present day. Through these campaigns, Rosemary Hennessy illuminates the attachments and identifications that motivate people to act on behalf of one another and that bind them to a common cause.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; I. History, Affect, Representation; 1. Labor Organizing in Mexico's Entangled Economies; 2. The Materiality of Affect; 3. Bearing Witness; II. Sex, Labor, Movement; 4. Open Secrets; 5. The Value of a Second Skin; 6. Feeling Bodies, Jeans, Justice; 7. The North-South Encuentros; III. The Utopian Question; 8. Love in the Common; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4529-4009-6

OCLC:

866444998