Description
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary work explores the complex intersections of technology, class, gender, and ecology in the transnational milieu of Mexico's maquiladoras.
Trade ReviewPeña's book, the result of more than ten years of field research, delineates the political, cultural, and environmental effects of Mexico's borderside maquiladoras.... Through his critique of these foreign-owned assembly plants, Peña argues persuasively for the implementation of new methods of economic growth that may be both ecologically sustainable and culturally appropriate, and therefore beneficial to communities on both sides of the border. * Hispanic *
Table of Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Part One. The Terror of the Machine
- 1. “No Terrors, to a Certain Kind of Mind”
- 2. From Dark, Satanic Mills to Maquilas
- 3. (Mis)Measuring the Ignorant
- Part Two. Terrains of Struggle
- 4. Like Turtles on the Line
- 5. The Mirror of Exploitation
- Part Three. Mothers of Invention
- 6. Mexican Thinkwork
- 7. Marginality as Inventive Force
- Part Four. Back to the Future
- 8. Mexico in the Fast Lane?
- 9. Promised Land or Wasteland?
- Notes
- References
- Index
