We Are in This Dance Together : : Gender, Power, and Globalization at a Mexican Garment Firm /

We Are in This Dance Together : : Gender, Power, and Globalization at a Mexican Garment Firm / / Nancy Plankey-Videla.

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Changes in the global economy have real and contradictory outcomes for the everyday lives of women workers. In 2001, Nancy Plankey-Videla had a rare opportunity to witness these effects firsthand. Having secured access to one of Latin America's top producers of high-end men's suits in Mexi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Plankey-Videla, Nancy,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 7 photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: "We Are in This Dance Together"
  • 1. Contextualizing the Case of Moctezuma
  • 2. "I Like Piecework More . . . Because I Work for Myself "
  • 3. From Piecework to Teamwork: Translating Theory into Practice
  • 4. Becoming a Worker: Discovering the Shop Floor and the Contested Nature of Self-Managed Teams
  • 5. Lean during Mean Times
  • 6. The Strike: From Motherhood to Workers' Rights
  • 7. "We Lost Control of the Shop Floor": Flexible Taylorism and the Demise of the Firm
  • Conclusion: "We Are Workers, Not Beggars"
  • Appendix A: The Workforce at Moctezuma
  • Appendix B: Past Work Employment Classification Methods
  • Appendix C: Reprimands in Worker Files, 1993-2001
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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