From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras Gender, Labor, and Globalization in Nicaragua

Name: From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras Gender, Labor, and Globalization in Nicaragua
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ISBN: 9780822335658

ISBN-10: 0822335654

ISBN-13: 9780822335658

Edition: 2005

Authors: Jennifer Bickham Mendez

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"From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras" is a major contribution to the study of globalization, labor, and women's movements. Jennifer Bickham Mendez presents a detailed ethnographic account of the Nicaraguan Working and Unemployed Women's Movement, "Maria Elena Cuadra" (mec), which emerged as an autonomous organization in 1994. Most of its efforts revolve around organizing women workers in Nicaragua's free trade zones and working to improve conditions in "maquiladora" factories. Mendez examines the structural and cultural elements of mec in order to demonstrate how globalization affects grassroots advocacy for social and economic justice. She argues that globalization has created…

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List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 9/7/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



About the Series


Preface


Acknowledgments



"Just Us and Our Worms": The Working and Unemployed Women's Movement, "Maria Elena Cuardra"



Oppositional Politics in Nicaragua and the Formation of MEC



Gendering Power and Resistance in an Era of Globalizations



"Autonomous but Organized" MEC's Search for an Organizational Structure



"Rompiendo Esqruemas" MEC's Political Strategies and the Free Trade Zone



MEC and the Postsocialist State: Democracy, Rights, and Citizenship under Globalization



Resistance Goes Global: Power and Opposition in an Age of Globalization


Notes


Abbreviations and Acronyms


Bibliography


Index