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Book The Terror of the Machine

Download or read book The Terror of the Machine written by Devon G. Peña and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born of thirteen years of field research, this 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. Devon Peña examines workplace and community struggles from the perspective of the women who work in the maquiladoras. He describes the workers' struggles for workplace democracy, social justice, and sustainable development. He also observes the circulation of struggle from the factory to the community, highlighting the efforts to establish worker-owned cooperatives in the border region during the 1970s and 1980s. Female maquila workers are typically portrayed as passive, apolitical, and easily exploited. This book, however, presents an opposing view, investigating the "subaltern life of the shop floor"—the workers' informal methods of resistance to hazardous conditions, sexual harassment, and managerial tyranny. Using survey research, oral history, discourse analysis, and site ethnography, the author develops a cogent critique of labor-process theory, a critique grounded on his extensive study of actual workplace politics in the maquiladoras. The Terror of the Machine is a trenchant analysis of the political, cultural, and environmental effects of maquila industrialization and an eloquent and persuasive call for alternatives in the direction of ecologically sustainable and culturally appropriate modes of development.

Book Salvaging Nature

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marcus Colchester
  • Publisher : DIANE Publishing
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 0788171941
  • Pages : 91 pages

Download or read book Salvaging Nature written by Marcus Colchester and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BG (copy 1): From the John Holmes Library collection.

Book Bargaining for Survival

Download or read book Bargaining for Survival written by Gunilla Andræ and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Affluence  Poverty and the Idea of a Post scarcity Society

Download or read book Affluence Poverty and the Idea of a Post scarcity Society written by Anthony Giddens and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lebanese shi a and political violence

Download or read book The Lebanese shi a and political violence written by Elizabeth Picard and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Conservation  Livelihood and Democracy

Download or read book Conservation Livelihood and Democracy written by Dharam P. Ghai and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SCOTT: From the John HolmesLibrary collection.

Book Discussion Paper

Download or read book Discussion Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ethnic Conflict and Development

Download or read book Ethnic Conflict and Development written by Ralph R. Premdas and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Parks and People

Download or read book Parks and People written by Kléber Bertrand Ghimire and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Limits to Labour Absorption

Download or read book Limits to Labour Absorption written by Kate Meagher and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ruining the Commons and Responses of the Commoners

Download or read book Ruining the Commons and Responses of the Commoners written by John Kurien and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Our Home is a Slum

Download or read book Our Home is a Slum written by YUVA (Organization) and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beneficiaries of the Illicit Drug Trade

Download or read book Beneficiaries of the Illicit Drug Trade written by F. LaMond Tullis and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: