The terror of the machine : technology, work, gender, and ecology on the U.S.-Mexico border /

The terror of the machine : technology, work, gender, and ecology on the U.S.-Mexico border /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Peña, Devon Gerardo.
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	Austin : Center for Mexican American studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1997.
Description:	xi, 460 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	CMAS border & migration studies series
Subject:	North American Free Trade Agreement (1992 December 17) North American Free Trade Agreement (1992 December 17) Women offshore assembly industry workers -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Interviews. Labor -- Mexican-American Border Region. Quality of work life -- Mexican-American Border Region. Industrial hygiene -- Mexican-American Border Region. International business enterprises -- Mexican-American Border Region. Economic history. Industrial hygiene. International business enterprises. Labor. Quality of work life. Social conditions. Women offshore assembly industry workers. Mexican-American Border Region -- Economic conditions. Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions. North America -- Mexican-American Border Region. Interviews.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2631335

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ISBN:	0292765614 (alk. paper) 0292765622 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-431) and index.

Table of Contents:

List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Part 1. The Terror of the Machine
1. "No Terrors, to a Certain Kind of Mind"
2. From Dark, Satanic Mills to Maquilas
3. (Mis)Measuring the Ignorant
Part 2. Terrains of Struggle
4. Like Turtles on the Line
5. The Mirror of Exploitation
Part 3. Mothers of Invention
6. Mexican Thinkwork
7. Marginality as Inventive Force
Part 4. Back to the Future
8. Mexico in the Fast Lane?
9. Promised Land or Wasteland?
Notes
References
Index