| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xiii, 323 p. : ill., maps. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-301) and index. |
| Contents |
Sixteenth-century conquests (1521-1598) and their postcolonial border legacies -- The invention of borderlands geography : what do Aztlan and Tenochtitlan have to do with Ciudad Juarez/Paso del Norte? -- The problem of color in Mexico and on the U.S.-Mexico border : precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial subjectivities -- Culture, class, and gender in late twentieth-century Ciudad Juarez -- Maquiladoras, gender, and culture change -- The political economy of tropes, culture, and masculinity inside an electronics factory -- Border inspections : inspecting the working-class life of maquiladora workers on the U.S-Mexico border -- Culture, class, and union politics : the daily struggle for chairs inside a sewing factory in the larger context of the working day -- Women, men, and "gender" in feminist anthropology : lessons from northern Mexico's maquiladoras -- Alternating imaginings -- Reimagining culture and power against late industrial capitalism and other forms of conquest through border theory and analysis. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Offshore assembly industry -- Employees -- Mexico -- Ciudad Juarez.
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Ciudad Juarez (Mexico) -- Social conditions.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780292717664 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0292717660 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780292717671 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0292717679 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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