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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is a great book. Easy to read, it provides a fascinating account of how changes in industrial structure brought about by Mexico's shift from a state-led industrialization to one led by market forces and guided by neo-liberal principles are bringing with them changes in family structure, living arrangements, and processes of social reproduction as the old 'male-wage-earning-nuclear-family' as ideal is gradually being replaced by new patterns of household formation. As an intellectual contribution to the literature on gender, development, and labor, Altha Cravey's Women and Work in Mexico's Maquiladoras is a first-rate book that deserves to be read widely. * Annals of the Association of American Geographers *
Accessible to upper-division undergraduates and up. -- A. Bunton * CHOICE, July / August 1999, Vol. 36, No. 11/12 *
Altha Cravey broadens the scope of analysis concerning gender and industrial transformations. Cravey's analysis moves beyond the shop floor to include the organization of production and, especially, social reproduction in different industrial regions. Thus this book incorporates far more than the title suggests. * Economic Geography *
Altha Cravey's book manages to provide some new insights into the relationships between different industrial production regimes, the state, and changes in social relations and reproduction. * Progress In Human Geography *
The book is useful in showing that Mexico had a fully constituted industrial system before maquiladoras developed and that workers in the new system have lost a great deal in the transition. * New Mexico Historical Review *
A significant contribution to the literature on industrialization, social reproduction, and households. Altha Cravey rightly places gender in strategic considerations of these areas. With its rich field research and creative, spatially developed research design, this book is highly recommended for courses on the sociology of development, of gender, and of international studies. -- Kathleen Staudt, University of Texas at El Paso
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Early Industrialization in Mexico Chapter 3 Internationalization and Privatization: Industrialization after 1976 Chapter 4 The Old Model: A Case Study of State-Led Industrialization Chapter 5 The New Model: A Case Study of the Maquiladora Industry Chapter 6 Single-Sex Worker Dormitories in the Maquiladora Factory Regime Chapter 7 Comparative Household Formation: Analysis of Change Chapter 8 Conclusion
