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Assembling for Development
First published in 1989, this book focuses upon the phenomenon of export-led industrialisation fuelled by foreign investment and technology. He concentrates on Mexico, where US companies have been taking advantage of inexpensive labour to establish "maquila" factories that assemble US parts for export. Through this detailed study of the maquila industry, Sklair charts the progress from the political imperialism of colonial days to the economic imperialism of today.
No Paradise Yet
This is a review of where the women of Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean stand on key social and cultural issues. What progress have women in particular countries made? How do social pressures, cultural expectations and continuing poverty hold back effective recognition of their rights? What prospects, as a result of continuing research, activism by women's organizations and measures by government, does the next generation hold out of for further progress in women's social position?
Women and Work in Mexico's Maquiladoras
The emergence of global assembly plants is closely linked to the creation of a global female industrial labor force. Women and Work in Mexico's Maquiladoras examines this larger process in Mexico, where--despite a century of industrialization and a tradition of well-paid, highly organized, male workers--the maquiladora factories have turned to predominantly female labor. Exploring this dramatic shift, this book convincingly demonstrates how gender restructuring in workplaces and households has become a crucial element in the reorientation of Mexican development. The author compares Mexico's new industrial system with its historical antecedent and documents federal policy changes that have resulted in distinct patterns of gender, unionization, household form, and social welfare. Rich in ethnographic detail, the book uses the voices of workers themselves to provide an intimate look at how daily lives have been transformed--in ways that could not have been foreseen--by the national and international processes shaping the country's industrial transition.
Entitled to Nothing
In Entitled to Nothing, Lisa Sun-Hee Park investigates how the politics of immigration, health care, and welfare are intertwined. Documenting the formal return of the immigrant as a “public charge,” or a burden upon the State, the author shows how the concept has been revived as states adopt punitive policies targeting immigrants of color and require them to “pay back” benefits for which they are legally eligible during a time of intense debate regarding welfare reform. Park argues that the notions of “public charge” and “public burden” were reinvigorated in the 1990s to target immigrant women of reproductive age for deportation and as part of a larger project of “disciplin...
Current Catalog
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
La Nueva California
Cover -- La Nueva California -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Lists of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 America Defines Latinos -- 2 Latinos Reject America's Definition -- 3 Washington Defines a New Nativism -- 4 Latinos Define Latinos -- 5 Times of Crisis -- 6 Latinos Define "American"--7 Creating a Regional American Identity -- 8 Latino Post-Millennials -- 9 Latino Post-Millennials Create America's Future -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index
