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- catalog abstract "Born of more than ten years of field research, this wide-ranging, interdisciplinary work explores the complex intersections of technology, class, gender, and ecology in the transnational milieu of Mexico's maquiladoras, foreign-owned assembly plants located along the U.S. border. Using a full palette including survey research, oral history, discourse analysis, and site ethnography, the author delineates the "dialectics of domination and resistance in the maquilas," and develops a telling critique of labor-process theory - a critique grounded on his extensive study of actual workplace politics in the maquiladoras. Writing with grace, passion, and scholarly rigor, Devon Pena first locates the maquila industry within the history of workplace organizations. He then examines border workplace and community struggles from the perspectives of the women who work in the maquiladoras - devoting ample space to the workers' own narratives. He describes the workers' struggles for democracy and social justice in the workplace, and for sustainable development. He also observes the circulation of struggle from factory to community, highlighting the efforts to establish worker-owned cooperatives in the border region during the 1970s and 1980s. The Terror of the Machine is a trenchant, vivid analysis of the political, cultural, and environmental effects of maquila industrialization, and an eloquent and persuasive call for alternative modes of development that are ecologically sustainable and culturally appropriate.".
- catalog contributor b8491443.
- catalog coverage "Mexican-American Border Region Economic conditions.".
- catalog coverage "Mexican-American Border Region Social conditions.".
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "Born of more than ten years of field research, this wide-ranging, interdisciplinary work explores the complex intersections of technology, class, gender, and ecology in the transnational milieu of Mexico's maquiladoras, foreign-owned assembly plants located along the U.S. border. Using a full palette including survey research, oral history, discourse analysis, and site ethnography, the author delineates the "dialectics of domination and resistance in the maquilas," and develops a telling critique of labor-process theory - a critique grounded on his extensive study of actual workplace politics in the maquiladoras. Writing with grace, passion, and scholarly rigor, Devon Pena first locates the maquila industry within the history of workplace organizations. He then examines border workplace and community struggles from the perspectives of the women who work in the maquiladoras - devoting ample space to the workers' own narratives. He describes the workers' struggles for democracy and social justice in the workplace, and for sustainable development. He also observes the circulation of struggle from factory to community, highlighting the efforts to establish worker-owned cooperatives in the border region during the 1970s and 1980s. The Terror of the Machine is a trenchant, vivid analysis of the political, cultural, and environmental effects of maquila industrialization, and an eloquent and persuasive call for alternative modes of development that are ecologically sustainable and culturally appropriate.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-431) and index.".
- catalog extent "xi, 460 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Terror of the machine.".
- catalog identifier "0292765614 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0292765622 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Terror of the machine.".
- catalog isPartOf "CMAS border & migration studies series".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Austin : CMAS Books,".
- catalog relation "Terror of the machine.".
- catalog spatial "Mexican-American Border Region Economic conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Mexican-American Border Region Social conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Mexican-American Border Region".
- catalog spatial "Mexican-American Border Region.".
- catalog subject "331.4/87042/09721 20".
- catalog subject "Canada. Treaties, etc. 1992 October 7.".
- catalog subject "HD8119.M49 P46 1996".
- catalog subject "HD8119.M49 P46 1997".
- catalog subject "Industrial hygiene Mexican-American Border Region.".
- catalog subject "International business enterprises Mexican-American Border Region.".
- catalog subject "Labor Mexican-American Border Region.".
- catalog subject "NAFTA.".
- catalog subject "Quality of work life Mexican-American Border Region.".
- catalog subject "Women offshore assembly industry workers Mexican-American Border Region Interviews.".
- catalog title "The terror of the machine : technology, work, gender, and ecology on the U.S.-Mexico border / Devon G.Peña.".
- catalog type "Interviews. fast".
- catalog type "text".