Mexican Women in American Factories: Free Trade and Exploitation on the Border
Autor Carolyn Tuttleen Limba Engleză Paperback – noi 2012
Carolyn Tuttle led a group that interviewed 620 women maquila workers in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. The responses from this representative sample refute many of the hopeful predictions made by scholars before NAFTA and reveal instead that little has improved for maquila workers. The women’s stories make it plain that free trade has created more low-paying jobs in sweatshops where workers are exploited. Families of maquila workers live in one- or two-room houses with no running water, no drainage, and no heat. The multinational companies who operate the maquilas consistently break Mexican labor laws by requiring women to work more than nine hours a day, six days a week, without medical benefits, while the minimum wage they pay workers is insufficient to feed their families. These findings will make a crucial contribution to debates over free trade, CAFTA-DR, and the impact of globalization.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780292756847
ISBN-10: 0292756844
Pagini: 253
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
ISBN-10: 0292756844
Pagini: 253
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Notă biografică
Carolyn Tuttle is Betty Jane Schultz Hollender Professor of Economics at Lake Forest College, where she is currently Chair of the Latin American Studies Department and Director of the Border Studies Program. She also authored Hard at Work in Factories and Mines: The Economics of Child Labor in Great Britain.
Cuprins
- List of Figures, Tables, and Boxes
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. American Factories in Mexico
- Chapter 2. The Border City of Nogales
- Chapter 3. House to House: The Method of Analysis
- Chapter 4. The History of the Maquila Industry
- Chapter 5. Are the Maquilas Sweatshops?
- Chapter 6. Liberation or Exploitation of Women Workers?
- Chapter 7. Fancy Factories and Dilapidated Dwellings
- Appendix 1. Maquilas in Nogales in 2004
- Appendix 2. Survey of Maquila Workers
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
Recenzii
This meticulous study is an indictment not only of outsourcing and maquiladoras as sweatshops, but of the entire premise of free trade as a win-win proposition for all concerned. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through research collections.
Descriere
Drawing on a rich data set of interviews with over 600 women maquila workers, this pathfinding book offers the first rigorous economic and sociological analysis of the impact of NAFTA and its implications for free trade around the world.