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For we are sold, I and my people : women and industry in Mexico's frontier / María Patricia Fernández-Kelly. [electronic resource]

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Fernández-Kelly, María Patricia, 1948-
Series:
SUNY series in the anthropology of work
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Women--Mexico--Economic conditions.
Women.
Industries--Mexican-American Border Region.
Industries.
Textile industry--Mexico--Ciudad Juárez.
Textile industry.
Electronic industries--Mexico--Ciudad Juárez.
Electronic industries.
Women textile workers--Mexico--Ciudad Juárez.
Women textile workers.
Women electronic industry workers--Mexico--Ciudad Juárez.
Women electronic industry workers.
Mexico--Social conditions.
Mexico.
Mexican-American Border Region--Economic conditions.
Mexican-American Border Region.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 217 p. )
Other Title:
Women and industry in Mexico's frontier.
Place of Publication:
Albany : State University of New York Press, c1983.
Language Note:
English
Contents:
Introduction
The border industrialization program
The Maquila women: characteristics of the work force in Ciudad Juárez's assembly plants
Maquiladoras and the international Division of Labor
Offshore production and local labor markets in the international context
Maquiladoras: the view from inside
Maquiladoras and cultural change in Ciudad Juárez
Maquiladora work and household organization: an ethnographic account.
Notes:
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 195-213.
ISBN:
1-4384-0264-3
0-585-08756-3

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