Fires on the Border : The Passionate Politics of Labor Organizing on the Mexican Frontera /

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Fires on the Border takes up questions of labor and community organizing-its "affect-culture"--Mexico's northern border from the early 1970s to the present day. Through these campaigns, Rosemary Hennessy illuminates the attachments and identifications that motivate people to act on be...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hennessy, Rosemary (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women offshore assembly industry workers.
Offshore assembly industry > Employees > Labor unions.
Labor unions > Organizing.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Entreprises delocalisees > Personnel feminin > Region frontaliere mexicano-americaine.
Syndicalisation > Region frontaliere mexicano-americaine.
Entreprises delocalisees > Personnel > Syndicats > Region frontaliere mexicano-americaine.
Women offshore assembly industry workers > Mexican-American Border Region.
Labor unions > Organizing > Mexican-American Border Region.
Offshore assembly industry > Employees > Labor unions > Mexican-American Border Region.
North America > Mexican-American Border Region.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Introduction; I. History, Affect, Representation; 1. Labor Organizing in Mexico's Entangled Economies; 2. The Materiality of Affect; 3. Bearing Witness; II. Sex, Labor, Movement; 4. Open Secrets; 5. The Value of a Second Skin; 6. Feeling Bodies, Jeans, Justice; 7. The North-South Encuentros; III. The Utopian Question; 8. Love in the Common; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

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