Author: Jorge Carrillo Viveros
Publisher: Jorge Carrillo Viveros
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
The Evolution of the Maquiladora Industry: Labor Relations in a New Context
Author: Jorge Carrillo Viveros
Publisher: Jorge Carrillo Viveros
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher: Jorge Carrillo Viveros
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Women and Work in Mexico's Maquiladoras
Author: Altha J. Cravey
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847688869
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The emergence of global assembly plants is closely linked to the creation of a global female industrial labor force. Women and Work in Mexico's Maquiladoras examines this larger process in Mexico, where--despite a century of industrialization and a tradition of well-paid, highly organized, male workers--the maquiladora factories have turned to predominantly female labor. Exploring this dramatic shift, this book convincingly demonstrates how gender restructuring in workplaces and households has become a crucial element in the reorientation of Mexican development. The author compares Mexico's new industrial system with its historical antecedent and documents federal policy changes that have resulted in distinct patterns of gender, unionization, household form, and social welfare. Rich in ethnographic detail, the book uses the voices of workers themselves to provide an intimate look at how daily lives have been transformed--in ways that could not have been foreseen--by the national and international processes shaping the country's industrial transition.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847688869
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The emergence of global assembly plants is closely linked to the creation of a global female industrial labor force. Women and Work in Mexico's Maquiladoras examines this larger process in Mexico, where--despite a century of industrialization and a tradition of well-paid, highly organized, male workers--the maquiladora factories have turned to predominantly female labor. Exploring this dramatic shift, this book convincingly demonstrates how gender restructuring in workplaces and households has become a crucial element in the reorientation of Mexican development. The author compares Mexico's new industrial system with its historical antecedent and documents federal policy changes that have resulted in distinct patterns of gender, unionization, household form, and social welfare. Rich in ethnographic detail, the book uses the voices of workers themselves to provide an intimate look at how daily lives have been transformed--in ways that could not have been foreseen--by the national and international processes shaping the country's industrial transition.
Capital Moves
Author: Jefferson Cowie
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501723561
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Find a pool of cheap, pliable workers and give them jobs—and soon they cease to be as cheap or as pliable. What is an employer to do then? Why, find another poor community desperate for work. This route—one taken time and again by major American manufacturers—is vividly chronicled in this fascinating account of RCA's half century-long search for desirable sources of labor. Capital Moves introduces us to the people most affected by the migration of industry and, most importantly, recounts how they came to fight against the idea that they were simply "cheap labor." Jefferson Cowie tells the dramatic story of four communities, each irrevocably transformed by the opening of an industrial plant. From the manufacturer's first factory in Camden, New Jersey, where it employed large numbers of southern and eastern European immigrants, RCA moved to rural Indiana in 1940, hiring Americans of Scotch-Irish descent for its plant in Bloomington. Then, in the volatile 1960s, the company relocated to Memphis where African Americans made up the core of the labor pool. Finally, the company landed in northern Mexico in the 1970s—a region rapidly becoming one of the most industrialized on the continent.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501723561
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Find a pool of cheap, pliable workers and give them jobs—and soon they cease to be as cheap or as pliable. What is an employer to do then? Why, find another poor community desperate for work. This route—one taken time and again by major American manufacturers—is vividly chronicled in this fascinating account of RCA's half century-long search for desirable sources of labor. Capital Moves introduces us to the people most affected by the migration of industry and, most importantly, recounts how they came to fight against the idea that they were simply "cheap labor." Jefferson Cowie tells the dramatic story of four communities, each irrevocably transformed by the opening of an industrial plant. From the manufacturer's first factory in Camden, New Jersey, where it employed large numbers of southern and eastern European immigrants, RCA moved to rural Indiana in 1940, hiring Americans of Scotch-Irish descent for its plant in Bloomington. Then, in the volatile 1960s, the company relocated to Memphis where African Americans made up the core of the labor pool. Finally, the company landed in northern Mexico in the 1970s—a region rapidly becoming one of the most industrialized on the continent.
The North American Auto Industry at the Onset of Continental Free Trade Negotiations
Author: Stephen Herzenberg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Journal of Borderlands Studies
The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America
Author: Douglas A. Chalmers
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191525138
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Against a broader backdrop of globalization and worldwide moves toward political democracy, The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America examines the unfolding relationships among social change, equity, and the democratic representation of the poor in Latin America. Recent Latin American governments have turned away from redistributive policies; at the same time, popular political and social organizations have been generally weakened, inequality has increased, and the gap between rich and poor has grown. Hanging in the balance is the consolidation and the quality of new or would-be democracies; this volume suggests that governments must find not just short-term programmes to alleviate poverty, but long-term means to ensure the effective integration of the poor into political life. The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America bridges the intellectual chasm between, on the one hand, studies of grassroots politics, and on the other, explorations of elite politics and formal institution-building. It will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary Latin American politics and society and, more generally, in the vicissitudes of democracy and citizenship in the late twentieth-century global system.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191525138
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Against a broader backdrop of globalization and worldwide moves toward political democracy, The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America examines the unfolding relationships among social change, equity, and the democratic representation of the poor in Latin America. Recent Latin American governments have turned away from redistributive policies; at the same time, popular political and social organizations have been generally weakened, inequality has increased, and the gap between rich and poor has grown. Hanging in the balance is the consolidation and the quality of new or would-be democracies; this volume suggests that governments must find not just short-term programmes to alleviate poverty, but long-term means to ensure the effective integration of the poor into political life. The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America bridges the intellectual chasm between, on the one hand, studies of grassroots politics, and on the other, explorations of elite politics and formal institution-building. It will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary Latin American politics and society and, more generally, in the vicissitudes of democracy and citizenship in the late twentieth-century global system.
The Unionization of the Maquiladora Industry
Author: Edward J. Williams
Publisher: SCERP and IRSC publications
ISBN: 9780925613080
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Publisher: SCERP and IRSC publications
ISBN: 9780925613080
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The Rise of the Professions in Twentieth-century Mexico
Author: David E. Lorey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780879032548
Category : College graduates
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780879032548
Category : College graduates
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Latin American Labor Syllabi
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial relations
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial relations
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Mexico Faces the 21st Century
Author: Donald E. Schultz
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This book analyzes the crisis in Mexico and assesses the outlook for political stability and U.S.-Mexican relations.
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This book analyzes the crisis in Mexico and assesses the outlook for political stability and U.S.-Mexican relations.