The Terror of the Machine: Technology, Work, Gender, and Ecology on the U.S.-Mexico Border (CMAS Border & Migration Studies Series) [Paperback]

Devon G. Pe�a (Author)

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Publication Date: 1997 | Series: CMAS Border & Migration Studies Series

Born of more than ten years of field research, this wide-ranging, interdisciplinary work explores the complex intersections of technology, class, gender, and ecology in the transnational milieu of Mexico's maquiladoras, foreign-owned assembly plants located along the U.S. border. Using a full palette including survey research, oral history, discourse analysis, and site ethnography, the author delineates the "dialectics of domination and resistance in the maquilas, " and develops a telling critique of labor-process theory - a critique grounded on his extensive study of actual workplace politics in the maquiladoras. Writing with grace, passion, and scholarly rigor, Devon Pena first locates the maquila industry within the history of workplace organizations. He then examines border workplace and community struggles from the perspectives of the women who work in the maquiladoras - devoting ample space to the workers' own narratives. He describes the workers' struggles for democracy and social justice in the workplace, and for sustainable development. He also observes the circulation of struggle from factory to community, highlighting the efforts to establish worker-owned cooperatives in the border region during the 1970s and 1980s. The Terror of the Machine is a trenchant, vivid analysis of the political, cultural, and environmental effects of maquila industrialization, and an eloquent and persuasive call for alternative modes of development that are ecologically sustainable and culturally appropriate.

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Product Details

Paperback: 477 pages
Publisher: University of Texas Press (1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0292765622
ISBN-13: 978-0292765627
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.9 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,475,524 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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