| Working Women Into the Borderlands Contributor(s): Hernández, Sonia (Author), Evans, Sterling David (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1623490413 ISBN-13: 9781623490416 Publisher: Texas A&M University Press OUR PRICE: $22.72 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Southwest (az, Nm, Ok, Tx) - History | Latin America - Mexico - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 331.409 |
| LCCN: 2013043168 |
| Series: Connecting the Greater West |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (0.85 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Cultural Region - Mexican |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Working Women into the Borderlands, author Sonia Hern ndez sheds light on how women's labor was shaped by US capital in the northeast region of Mexico and how women's labor activism simultaneously shaped the nature of foreign investment and relations between Mexicans and Americans. As capital investments fueled the growth of heavy industries in cities and ports such as Monterrey and Tampico, women's work complemented and strengthened their male counterparts' labor in industries which were historically male-dominated. As Hern ndez reveals, women laborers were expected to maintain their "proper" place in society, and work environments were in fact gendered and class-based. Yet, these prescribed notions of class and gender were frequently challenged as women sought to improve their livelihoods by using everyday forms of negotiation including collective organizing, labor arbitration boards, letter writing, creating unions, assuming positions of confianza ("trustworthiness"), and by migrating to urban centers and/or crossing into Texas. Drawing extensively on bi-national archival sources, newspapers, and published records, Working Women into the Borderlands demonstrates convincingly how women's labor contributions shaped the development of one of the most dynamic and contentious borderlands in the globe. |