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We are in this dance together : gender, power, and globalization at a Mexican garment firm /

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We Are in This Dance Together uses in-depth interviews with over sixty workers, managers, and policy makers to document and analyze events leading up to the female-led factory strike in March 2001 at a high-end producer of men's suits in Mexico and the strike's aftermath-including harassme...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Plankey-Videla, Nancy
Corporate Author: Ebook Library
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2012]
Subjects:
Women clothing workers > Mexico.
Clothing workers > Labor unions > Mexico.
Strikes and lockouts > Clothing trade > Mexico.
Clothing trade > Mexico.
Clothing trade.
Clothing workers > Labor unions.
Strikes and lockouts > Clothing trade.
Women clothing workers.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies.
Mexico.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:We Are in This Dance Together uses in-depth interviews with over sixty workers, managers, and policy makers to document and analyze events leading up to the female-led factory strike in March 2001 at a high-end producer of men's suits in Mexico and the strike's aftermath-including harassment from managers, corrupt union officials and labor authorities, and violent governor-sanctioned police actions. It illustrates how the women's shared identity as workers and mothers, deserving of dignity, respect, and a living wage, became the basis for radicalization and led to further civic organizing against the state, the company, and the corrupt union to demand justice.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 259 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780813553153 (electronic bk.)
0813553156 (electronic bk.)