From the revolution to the maquiladoras : gender, labor, and globalization in Nicaragua / Jennifer Bickham Mendez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Méndez, Jennifer Bickham.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

American encounters/global interactions.

American encounters/global interactions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Movimiento de Mujeres Trabajadoras y Desempleadas "María Elena Cuadra".

Women's rights--Nicaragua--Societies, etc.

Women's rights.

Women offshore assembly industry workers--Nicaragua.

Women offshore assembly industry workers.

Globalization--Economic aspects--Sex differences--Nicaragua.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Asks how and under what circumstances grassroots organizations tap into global networks and how gender plays into transnational political practices, addressing these issues through extended ethnographic research into a Nicaraguan women's organization.

Contents:

"Just us and our worms": the working and unemployed women's movement, "Maria Elena Cuadra"

Oppositional politics in Nicaragua and the formation of MEC

Gendering power and resistance in an era of globalization

"Autonomous but organized": MEC's search for an organizational structure

"Rompiendo esquemas": MEC's political strategies and the free trade zone

MEC and the postsocialist state: democracy, rights, and citizenship under globalization

Resistance goes global: power and opposition in an age of globalization.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]- 265) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Dez 2020)

ISBN:

9780822387305

0822387301

OCLC:

220950156