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Working women into the borderlands /

In Working Women into the Borderlands, author Sonia Hernández sheds light on how women's labor was shaped by US capital in the northeast region of Mexico and how women's labor activism simultaneously shaped the nature of foreign investment and relations between Mexicans and Americans. As...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hernández, Sonia, 1976- (Autor)
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2014.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Connecting the greater west series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Norteño history as borderlands history
  • Selling the Norteño borderlands: capital, land, and labor
  • Peasant women's work in a changing countryside during the Porfiriato
  • "We cannot suffer any longer from the patrón's bad treatment": everyday forms of peasant negotiation
  • (En)Gendering revolution in the borderlands: revolucionarias, combatants, and supporters in the northeast
  • Women's labor and activism in the greater Mexican borderlands, 1910-1930
  • Class, gender, and power in the postrevolutionary borderlands
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix 1. Selected mutual-aid societies and related collective organizations in the Mexican Northeast, 1880-1910
  • Appendix 2. Selected organizations in Texas affiliated with the Partido Liberal Mexicano, 1911-1917
  • Appendix 3. Selected estatutos (by-laws) and artículos of the Unión de Obreras "Fraternidad Femenil" (Xicoténcatl, Tamaulipas).