For we are sold, I and my people : women and industry in Mexico's frontier /

For we are sold, I and my people : women and industry in Mexico's frontier / María Patricia Fernández-Kelly.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Fernández-Kelly, María Patricia, 1948-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Albany : State University of New York Press, [1983]
Series:	SUNY series in the anthropology of work.
Subjects:	Women textile workers > Mexico > Ciudad Juárez. Women electronic industry workers > Mexico > Ciudad Juárez. Textile industry > Mexico > Ciudad Juárez. Electronic industries > Mexico > Ciudad Juárez. Mexican-American Border Region > Economic conditions.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
The border industrialization program
The Maquila women: characteristics of the work force in Ciudad Juárez's assembly plants
Maquiladoras and the international Division of Labor
Offshore production and local labor markets in the international context
Maquiladoras: the view from inside
Maquiladoras and cultural change in Ciudad Juárez
Maquiladora work and household organization: an ethnographic account.