For We are Sold, I and My People (Suny Series in the Anthropology of Work): Women and Industry in Mexico's Frontier - Softcover

Fernandez-Kelly, Maria Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0873957180 ISBN 13: 9780873957182

Verlag: State University of New York Press, 1984

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Book by FernandezKelly Maria Patricia

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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."

Biografía del autor:

Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly is visiting research fellow for the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, the University of California, San Diego.

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• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0873957180
• ISBN 13: 9780873957182
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 228