Maquiladoras Womens Work And Unemployment In Northern Mexico

Author : Susan Tiano
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maquiladoras, Women's Work, and Unemployment in Northern Mexico written by Susan Tiano and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Mexico's Border Industrialization Program (BIP) was formulated to relieve unemployment in northern cities, critics claim that it has not served this end. The main reason for this failure, many maintain, is that unemployment in the North, as in the nation as a whole, is a male problem. Yet, women constitute the bulk of the BIP labor force. This paper employs aggregate data on men's and women's labor force participation to demonstrate that this claim is based on several inaccurate assumptions. Average unemployment rates for the Northern region, as for the nation as a whole, are higher among women than men of comparable ages. Joblessness is especially pronounced among younger women, that sector of the labor force from which the majority of BIP workers are recruited. The program does not appear to have enhanced women's labor market situation relative to men's; rather, the same conditions which weaken women's employment status in other parts of Mexico also operate in the North, despite any job opportunities the program might offer. This essay draws upon propositions from Marxist-feminist theory to interpret these empirical trends.

Author : Susan B. Tiano
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Export Processing, Women's Work, and the Employment Problem in Developing Contries; the Case of the Maquiladora Program in Northern Mexico written by Susan B. Tiano and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Altha J. Cravey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847688869
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Work in Mexico's Maquiladoras written by Altha J. Cravey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1998 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Ellwyn R. Stoddard
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maquila written by Ellwyn R. Stoddard and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susan Tiano
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Export Processing, Women's Work, and the Employment Problem in Developing Countries written by Susan Tiano and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maria P. Fernandez-Kelly
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 9781438402642
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For We are Sold, I and My People written by Maria P. Fernandez-Kelly and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1984-06-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the basis of systematic research and personal experience, For We Are Sold, I and My People uncovers some of the social costs of modern production. Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly peels off the labels--"Made in Taiwan," "Assembled in Mexico"--and the trade names--RCA, Sony, General Motors, United Technologies, General Electric, Mattel, Chrysler, American Hospital Supply--to reveal the hidden human dimensions of present-day multinational manufacturing procedures. Focusing on Cuidad Juarez, located at the United States-Mexican border, Fernandez-Kelly examines the reality of maquiladoras, the hundreds of assembly plants that since the 1960s have been used by the Mexican government as part of its development strategy. Most maquiladoras function as subsidiaries of large U.S.-based corporations and a majority of the employees are women. Drawing from current knowledge in political economy and anthropology, this study focuses on one common denominator of the international division of labor--a growing proletariat of Third World women exploited by what some experts are calling "the global assembly line."

Author : Norma Iglesias Prieto
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292788681
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora written by Norma Iglesias Prieto and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published originally as La flor mas bella de la maquiladora, this beautifully written book is based on interviews the author conducted with more than fifty Mexican women who work in the assembly plants along the U.S.-Mexico border. A descriptive analytic study conducted in the late 1970s, the book uses compelling testimonials to detail the struggles these women face. The experiences of women in maquiladoras are attracting increasing attention from scholars, especially in the context of ongoing Mexican migration to the country's northern frontier and in light of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This book is among the earliest accounts of the physical and psychological toll exacted from the women who labor in these plants. Iglesias Prieto captures the idioms of these working women so that they emerge as dynamic individuals, young and articulate personalities, inexorably engaged in the daily struggle to change the fundamental conditions of their exploitation.

Author : Kathryn Kopinak
Publisher : Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies University of Cali
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Costs of Industrial Growth in Northern Mexico written by Kathryn Kopinak and published by Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies University of Cali. This book was released on 2004 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The foreign export-processing industry is a global phenomenon, with factories known as maquiladoras in Mexico and Central America. While maquiladoras have gone through second- and third-generation production models, with corresponding research literature from business perspectives, the social analyses of these models and 'Mature Maquilization's' effects on health, the environment, infrastructure, and gender inequalities have not yet been adequately addressed. Kathryn Kopinak's fine edited collection is a long-overdue, welcome addition to this gap in the literature. Drawing together a distinguished and committed group of scholars from North America, The Social Costs of Industrial Growth in Mexico provides careful and methodical knowledge on extensive third-generation social costs, with few benefits for workers' abilities to live healthy lives in which they enjoy fruits of their hard labor.

Author : Susan B. Tiano
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Export Processing, Women's WorkTiano. , and the Employment Problem in Developing Contries; the Case of the Maquiladora Program in Northern Mexico written by Susan B. Tiano and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susan Tiano
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
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Download or read book Working Paper written by Susan Tiano and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: