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Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora : Life Histories of Women Workers in Tijuana / Norma Iglesias Prieto.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: LLILAS Translations from Latin America SeriesPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1997Description: 1 online resource (143 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780292745834
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.48704209
LOC classification:
  • HD6073.O332.M495513 1997eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Translators' Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Meeting the Demand -- 2. The Realm of Work -- 3. We Women Are More Responsible -- 4. Maquila Muchachas: Pretty Young Maids -- 5. Who I Am, Where I Come From, and Where I'm Going -- 6. Most Beautiful Flower of the Maquiladora -- 7. Solidev: An Embattled Maquiladora -- 8. By Way of Conclusion -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Translators' Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Meeting the Demand -- 2. The Realm of Work -- 3. We Women Are More Responsible -- 4. Maquila Muchachas: Pretty Young Maids -- 5. Who I Am, Where I Come From, and Where I'm Going -- 6. Most Beautiful Flower of the Maquiladora -- 7. Solidev: An Embattled Maquiladora -- 8. By Way of Conclusion -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022)