Sweaters
Gender, Class and Workshop Based Industry in Mexico
Published in June 1991
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-333-53829-6 (ISBN)
Description
In recent years regions of rural Mexico have specialized in small-scale industry, much of which rests on women's labour. Hidden in people's houses or backstreet workshops, the scale and nature of the industrialization process is difficult to fathom. This book explores the histories, actions and opinions of people from one, small centre during an earlier phase of violence and impoverishment and in later years when work-shops have flourished. Two main themes arise: workshop expansion and differentiation over the past 25 years; the way that gender and class relations have moulded industrial organization while being themselves reformulated over time.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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maps
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 148 mm
Weight
435 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-53829-6 (9780333538296)
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10/1991
Palgrave Macmillan
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Content
Chapter 1: industrial restructuring and regional growth; the regional setting; Mexico's garment industry; the national context; sub-contracting hierarchies and informalisation; gender and social reproduction; the investigation's analytic framework. Chapter 2: the region and its history; the town of Santiago Tangamandapio; historical precedents; the industrial history of an "Informal" capital. Chapter 3: economic and social relations before 1960; questions of origins; forces leading to migration; family and gender relations in historical perspective; houshold relations in the ranchos; household relations after resettlement in the town; women as a potential labour supply. Chapter 4: the rise of a rural industry; industrial expansion and workshop ownership; production, labour process and technological change; markets, profits and workshop differentiation; strategies of accumulation; relations among workshops. Chapter 5: labour relations and workers' strategies; labour relations in the workshops; workers struggles; the place of labour struggle in workshop transformation. Chapter 6: relations of gender and class outside the workshops; changing contexts; social origins of workshop workers; domestic industry - women's industry; family and gender relations of workshop workers. Chapter 7: a tentative model of workshop-based production; origins of capitalized workshop production; dynamics and directions of change.