We Are in This Dance Together : Gender, Power, and Globalization at a Mexican Garment Firm.

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We Are in This Dance Together uses in-depth interviews with over sixty workers, managers, and policy makers to document and analyze events leading up to the female-led factory strike in March 2001 at a high-end producer of men's suits in Mexico and the strike's aftermath-including harassme...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Plankey-Videla, Nancy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2012.
©2012
Temas:
Women clothing workers > Mexico.
Clothing workers > Labor unions > Mexico.
Strikes and lockouts > Clothing trade > Mexico.
Clothing trade > Mexico.
Travailleuses du vêtement > Mexique.
Travailleurs du vêtement > Syndicats > Mexique.
Grèves et lock-out > Vêtements > Industrie et commerce > Mexique.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Hispanic American Studies.
Clothing trade.
Clothing workers > Labor unions.
Strikes and lockouts > Clothing trade.
Women clothing workers.
Mexico.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction. We Are in This Dance Together
  • Chapter 1. Contextualizing the Case of Moctezuma; Chapter 2. I Like Piecework More ... Because I Work for Myself
  • Chapter 3. From Piecework to Teamwork: Translating Theory into Practice; Chapter 4. Becoming a Worker: Discovering the Shop Floor and the Contested Nature of Self-Managed Teams; Chapter 5. Lean during Mean Times; Chapter 6. The Strike: From Motherhood to Workers' Rights.
  • Chapter 7. We Lost Control of the Shop Floor: Flexible Taylorism and the Demise of the FirmConclusion. We Are Workers, Not Beggars
  • Appendix A. The Workforce at Moctezuma; Appendix B. Past Work Employment Classification Methods; Appendix C. Reprimands in Worker Files, 1993-2001; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

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