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

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.
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Table of Contents:

Contextualizing the case of Moctezuma
"I like piecework more
because I work for myself"
From piecework to teamwork: translating theory into practice
Discovering the shop floor and the contested nature of self-managed teams
Lean during mean times
The strike: from motherhood to workers' rights
"We lost control of the shop floor": flexible Taylorism and the demise of the firm
Conclusion: "We are workers, not beggars".