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Author Plankey-Videla, Nancy.

Title We Are in This Dance Together : Gender, Power, and Globalization at a Mexican Garment Firm
Published Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2012
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (278 pages)
Contents Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction. We Are in This Dance Together -- Chapter 1. Contextualizing the Case of Moctezuma; Chapter 2. I Like Piecework More ... Because I Work for Myself -- Chapter 3. From Piecework to Teamwork: Translating Theory into Practice; Chapter 4. Becoming a Worker: Discovering the Shop Floor and the Contested Nature of Self-Managed Teams; Chapter 5. Lean during Mean Times; Chapter 6. The Strike: From Motherhood to Workers' Rights
Chapter 7. We Lost Control of the Shop Floor: Flexible Taylorism and the Demise of the FirmConclusion. 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
Summary 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 harassment from managers, corrupt union officials and labor authorities, and violent governor-sanctioned police actions. It illustrates how the women's shared identity as workers and mothers, deserving of dignity, re
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Women clothing workers -- Mexico
Clothing workers -- Labor unions -- Mexico
Strikes and lockouts -- Clothing trade -- Mexico
Clothing trade -- Mexico
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Hispanic American Studies.
Clothing trade
Clothing workers -- Labor unions
Strikes and lockouts -- Clothing trade
Women clothing workers
Mexico
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813553153
0813553156