Gendered struggles against globalisation in Mexico
By: by Teresa Healy.
Series: Gender in a global/local world
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780754637011
Subjects: Automobile industry workers -- Labor unions -- Mexico; Globalization -- Mexico; Working class men -- Mexico
Description: Teresa Healy examines resistance within Mexican labour unions during a period of sustained crisis at the regional and national level, as well as the level of world order. Gender continued to shape the struggles of radical labour movements throughout a period of deepening crisis.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 'Of labour and social provision': gender, production and revolutionary nationalism; title: Nissan workers, caudillismo and social unionism; title: The maquilization of Ford de México; title: Volkswagen, NAFTA and the disintegration of labour rights in Mexico; title: Globalisation and the gendering of working class politics.