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The terror of the machine : technology, work, gender, and ecology on the U.S.-Mexico border / Devon G.Peña.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peña, Devon Gerardo, author.
- Series:
- CMAS border & migration studies series.
- CMAS Border and Migration Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- North American Free Trade Agreement (1992 December 17).
- North American Free Trade Agreement.
- Women offshore assembly industry workers--Mexican-American Border Region--Interviews.
- Women offshore assembly industry workers.
- Labor--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Labor.
- Quality of work life--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Quality of work life.
- Industrial hygiene--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Industrial hygiene.
- International business enterprises--Mexican-American Border Region.
- International business enterprises.
- Mexican-American Border Region--Economic conditions.
- Mexican-American Border Region.
- Mexican-American Border Region--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (460 pages) : illustrations, maps, tables.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin, [Texas] : CMAS Books, 1997.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Intro
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Part One. The Terror of the Machine
- 1. "No Terrors, to a Certain Kind of Mind
- 2. From Dark, Satanic Mills to Maquilas
- 3. (Mis)Measuring the Ignorant
- Part Two. Terrains of Struggle
- 4. Like Turtles on the Line
- 5. The Mirror of Exploitation
- Part Three. Mothers of Invention
- 6. Mexican Thinkwork
- 7. Marginality as Inventive Force
- Part Four. Back to the Future
- 8. Mexico in the Fast Lane?
- 9. Promised Land or Wasteland?
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-292-79976-4
- OCLC:
- 1022786342
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