The Terror of the Machine: Technology, Work, Gender, and Ecology on the U.S.-Mexico Border

by Devon Gerardo Peña

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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.

Devon Pe a examines workplace and community struggles from the perspective of the women who work in the maquiladoras. He describes the workers' struggles for workplace...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0292765622

ISBN13:9780292765627

Release Date:April 1997

Publisher:University of Texas Press

Length:477 Pages

Weight:1.45 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 9.2"

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Americas Business Business & Investing Economic Conditions Economics Industries & Professions Information Management Mexico Politics & Social Sciences Social Science

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