Search Results for maquiladora

...Michael J. Pisani Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora: Life Histories of Women Workers in Tijuana . By Prieto Norma Iglesias . Translated by Stone Michael with Winkler Gabrielle . Foreword by Selby Henry . Translations from Latin America Series . Austin : Institute...

...Richard H. Immerman The Maquiladora Revolution in Guatemala . By Petersen Kurt . New Haven : Orville Schell Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School , 1992 . Graphs. Notes. Index . xvi, 244 pp. Paper . $7.95 . Doing Business with the Dictators: A Political...

...Heather Fowler-Salamini The Unionization of the Maquiladora Industry: The Tamaulipan Case in National Context . By Williams Edward J. and Passe-Smith John T. . San Diego : Institute for Regional Studies of the Californias, San Diego State University , 1992 . Map. Tables. Graphs...

...M. Patricia Fernández Kelly The Maquiladora Industry: Economic Solution or Problem? . Edited by Fatemi Khosrow . New York : Praeger Publishers , 1990 . Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xi , 262 pp. Cloth . $47.95 . Copyright 1991 by Duke University Press 1991...

...Susan M. Gauss Desert Capitalism: Maquiladoras in North America’s Western Industrial Corridor . By Kopinak Kathryn . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 1996 . Maps. Figures. Graphs. Bibliography. Index . xvi , 232 pp. Cloth . $45.00 . Copyright 1997 by Duke University...

...Helen Icken Safa Exports and Local Development: Mexico’s New Maquiladoras . By Wilson Patricia A. . Austin : University of Texas Press , 1992 . Map. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . vii , 161 pp. Cloth , $25.00 . Paper , $10.95 . Copyright 1993...

...Jerry R. Ladman Maquiladoras and Migration: Workers in the Mexico-United States Border Industrialization Program . By Seligson Mitchell A. and Williams Edward J. . Foreword by Ross Stanley R. . Austin : University of Texas Press , 1983 . Tables. Notes. Map. Figures...

.... These moments, or key junctures, can be constituted by events in the private sphere (marriage, inheritance, death of a spouse) or the larger, extrafamilial social order (the closing of mines, the repatriation of Mexicans during the depression, the emergence of new forms of employment in the maquiladora...

... production, the growth of tourism triggered by the vertiginous expansion of tourist resorts on the Caribbean coast, and the relatively new development of an export-assembly industry ( maquiladoras ). The opening chapter, a historical tour d’horizon by Edward H. Moseley and Helen Delpar, begins...

... members of Mexico’s working class. Furthermore, the increased surveillance of Mexico’s working class does not just happen at the U.S.-Mexico border. It also occurs in maquiladoras ; at high-class nightclubs that block working-class clientele from entering, the bouncers telling them that it is full...

... of the region’s total wage earners. Tiano studies the impact of Mexican border-town maquiladoras on different groups of women in the 1980s; Bose and Acosta-Belén present individual essays in two sections, the first stressing the impact of industrial labor on wage-earning women, and the second, women’s strategies...

... of maquiladoras . The last section of the book is centered around a number of case studies taken from the “worker insurgency” of 1970-75, including a substantial discussion of the well-known labor-capital conflict at Spicer, S.A., in 1975. ...

... relationship. One important example is the role of the twin plants ( maquiladoras ) as sources of employment for both countries. Other examples that Hansen points to are the contributions of Mexican labor and the Mexican American community in the economic development of the United States Southwest...

..., electrical power and manufacturing, and the employment of Mexican labor in the maquiladoras of the border region and in the United States. The context is what they call “the accelerated integration of Mexico into world capitalism and the brutal economic crisis of the 70s” (p. 4). The authors...

... fascinated by the texts of debates over “free trade” dating back to a century before the recent controversy over NAFTA. Martínez is to be commended for extending the coverage of border topics far beyond the issues (such as migration and maquiladoras) that tend to dominate the field of border studies...

... to new, grassroots union movements that promise a more dynamic assertion of workers’ autonomy. And Jorge Carrillo V. discusses the expansion of higher-technology, higher-paying jobs in the maquiladora sector. He describes an exceptionally active CTM branch in Tamaulipas, where local union leaders have...

... to the present. Toward this end, he has formed a micro- maquiladora in Parral, mining the municipal archives to reconstruct life histories of thousands of people who appear in the parish, civil, and administrative records during the past three and a half centuries. woodrow borah is Abraham D. Shepard...

..., and Finance.” Part Two consists of three quantitative essays: an overview of the border region by Paul Ganster and Alan Sweedler, a comparative treatment of wage and price data from Tijuana and San Diego by Jeffrey Bortz, and an analysis of the social costs of the maquiladora industry by George Baker...

... and the unemployed. Even if one of these alternatives takes hold, the rapid growth of U.S.- and Japanese-owned maquiladoras with their poorly paid workers and Mexico’s lingering economic problems greatly complicate the possibility for a reinvigorated labor movement. In the first part Trejo Delarbre analyzes why...

... systems based on Total Quality Control. The maquiladoras in two border regions are compared with similar factories in Monterrey; and new systems of work organization that may bring about gender inequities are assessed. Despite the value of many of these pieces, this does not appear to be a focused...