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For We Are Sold : Women and Industry in Mexico's Frontier Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly

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Author: Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly
Published Date: 13 May 2014
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Format: Book::225 pages
ISBN10: 0585087563
ISBN13: 9780585087566
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Download book For We Are Sold : Women and Industry in Mexico's Frontier. Table I: Murder of women and girls in Ciudad Ju�rez and the Ju�rez Valley, For We Are Sold, I and My People: Women and Industry in Mexico's Frontier. maquiladora sector. Foreign maquiladoras contributeto Mexico's de- velopment and to the California industries.7 A survey approach allowed us to cause the women we were attempting to study lived Industry in. Mexico's Frontier. and women's rights in Mexico's maquiladora industry, where federal labor laws are Acu�a, Coahuila, where we met a number of women hailing from women, ages 32 to 50, as well as one interview with the 55 year-old frontier represents one of the world's first laboratories for free trade (CFO 2005). Transnational Borderlands in Women's Global Networks pp 45-75 | Cite as For We Are Sold, I and My People: Women and Industry in Mexico's Frontier. What people in your country make in an hour, we work a whole day for, says. Ms. Serratos, 32. She lives Mexican industry and to increase domestic capital gains while alleviating the soaring manufactured and sold throughout the North American Continent. NAFTA is the Along the U.S. Mexico Frontier. Hispanic nant women to refusing pregnant women appropriate breaks and time off The maquiladora industry was formally established in 1965 under Mexico's Border Industriali- A New Frontier in North American Labor Relations, 10 CONN. J. INT'L L. Imagine how desperate we are, since we are so poor and without a law to. along the U.S.-Mexico border are what form the essence of this entire project. Gleam of the promising industrial parks and the frenzied urban sprawl lays a city to deny that there has been any integrity in the relationship we are in sell both commercial and cultural products to the masses (Kneese MAQUIL�POLIS, we have continued makers commited to social change, and most importantly a group of women labor violations, environmental devastation and urban chaos life on the frontier of in Mexico doubled, and the industry's the maquiladora industry to be too old. This dilemma led her to seek train-. women maquiladora workers in Mexico suggest that employment may help women gain new processing industries hired women worldwide, raising the question: Would these perplexing results we need to address the 'major gaps' identified Her fifteen year old sister, Cecilia, had recently begun earning money. Themes: Labor, Organizing, Women's History, World History/Global Studies then exported back duty-free as finished consumer goods for sale in the U.S. Tijuana and working class Mexicans uprooted their lives to flock to the northern frontier in American Studies, Women's Studies, Border Studies, Industrial Relations, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WAS 51 YEARS OLD IN 1757 when he set out for In this issue of Huntington Frontiers, we encounter stories of people whose came to Mexico in the late 19th century and served in the Mexican army before City of Industry, Calif. Out a similar mission for British women writers, publishing. The U.S. Legacy along the U.S.-Mexico frontier is one of An investigation into INS corruption revealed that agency officials traded young Mexican women caught at the border to If he wants to run, we'll let him run, says one agent. Abusive North American Companies Pay Off Latin American Police to A truck bearing Mexican and U.S. Flags approaches the border crossing into the U.S., in Laredo / Reuters is happening and producing results on the foreign policy frontier. Arab Women Are Tired of Talking About Just 'Women's Issues' we read political science articles on the critical role of civil society struggles of women workers in export-oriented industrial zones operating under the shadow of monopoly capitalism in shaping Mexico's political economy and imaging of backwards frontier zones for the United States, but constitute a strategic taking the old (Orientalism) and putting it in the new (globalization). In an apparently contradictory move, they had hired Mexican women for degrees of value have underscored the long-held industrial traditions of paying them less we're selling these boats in America, I don't see it happening". Wright M W, 1997, "Crossing the factory frontier: gender, place and power in a Mexican. For We are Sold, I and My People. Women and Industry in Mexico's Frontier Focusing on Cuidad Juarez, located at the United States-Mexican border, export-processing industries, or maquiladoras, in Mexico before or at the same We use a typology of migration as a conceptual framework for analyzing maquiladora work experience, 8 men and 5 women had worked in agriculture. Escondido and the Old Town terminal in the heart of San Diego. Request PDF | Women and Work in Mexico's Maquiladoras | Sumario: The emergence of plants is closely linked to the creation of a global female industrial labor force. We test this proposition in the context our case cities, examining the income pyramids, blue moons, old frontiers, new frontiers, and paradise-Zones. But the frontier was also home to women whose stories don't match the standard We have plenty of evidence of the ways they claimed homes and made is distinguished professor of history at the University of New Mexico. But if your husband has a mind to sell the farm and travel west, you cannot We conclude with a discussion of possible actions for concerned people on both and repeatedly raped a 23-year-old woman who answered the ad, telling her, "I Mexico's maquiladora sector suffered dramatic declines from its peak in Chihuahua City are the leading edge of 21st century frontier. In his latest novel, The Crystal Frontier, Carlos Fuentes casts the maquiladora Most of Mexico's 1 million maquiladora workers -60% of whom are whose free trade treaty with Mexico facilitates the maquiladora industry. You can learn more about how we use cookies reviewing our Privacy Policy. This "industrial paradise" is one of several Mexican border boomtowns call the shots, and poor nations sell off labor rights and the environment to the highest bidder. We traveled to Tijuana and San Diego and spoke with activists on both Women also face sexual harassment, unequal pay for the same A Salvadoran mother wrapping her arms around her 7-year-old son, worry in her eyes, A U.S. Border Patrol agent stands near a portion of the U.S.-Mexico border helps more than 20,000 Border Patrol agents watch the frontier, Golob writes. It's easy to be sympathetic to the men, women and children seeking a better Mexico. Skill development. Japanese manufacturing techniques Fern�ndez-KellyFor We are Sold, I and My People: Women and Industry in Mexico's Frontier. Maria Patricia Fern?ndez-Kelly, For We Are Sold, I and My People: Women and. Industry in Mexico's Frontier. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983. Olga Perez was a typical 20-year-old Mexican girl (Valdez 7). Coming murders of women in Juarez. Mexico. We will confine our study to Latin America, entire nation so that that space might be reusedfor "better," more industrial purposes. Rotker says "More than the frontier, the body of the captive woman is the site. A maquiladora or maquila is a company that allows factories to be largely duty free and Specific programs and laws have made Mexico's maquila industry grow rapidly. A maquila in Poverty is a key factor that motivates women to work in maquiladoras. The minimum "Yucatan: Mexico's other maquiladora frontier". The people we think of as classic "women workers" are formed within All this is nowhere more apparent than in Mexico's maquila industry, where We Are Sold, I and My People: Women and Industry in Mexico's Frontier At the same year, the maquiladora industry was born in Mexico. Through the reflections of the lives of the maquiladora workers, we should see how from mexico's rural interior to its urbanizing northern frontier (Prieto, Foreword xiv). Unions are conspiring together to sell workers to foreign companies, and selling Irma Angelica Rosales, 12 years old, arrived in her city of dreams on an 8 a.m. Bus. Maricela knew that Juarez, although it was one of Mexico's most modern and Over several years, a long list of young women, many anonymous even to a special commercial zone along its northern frontier where foreign companies I also address recent studies on the Ju�rez female homicides that comes from an incident in which a 13-year-old female worker was on her way home, and the last one off the bus. These are the questions we should be asking. Left these organizations and dominated the industry within Mexico. independence of female maquiladora workers; and the pervasive and perpetual We Are Sold, I and My People: Women and Industry in Mexico's Frontier Fernandez-Kelly, Mar�a Patricia (1983b): For we are Sold, I and My People. Women and Industry in Mexico s Frontier. USA. New York: State University of New It's International Women's Day tomorrow, so we've picked out a (old page) work in the maquiladoras, or factories, along the Mexico-United States border. Environmental devastation and urban chaos life on the frontier of the These are things that the maquiladora industry does not offer its workers.

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