Find Beautiful Flowers Of The Maquiladora: Life Histories Of Women Workers In Tijuana Assembled By Norma Iglesias Prieto File
basados en entrevistas hechas a empleadas de maquiladoras en Tijuana donde se reitera el trato a veces indigno pero también muy necesitado de estos empleos.
Tristemente estas historias son de entrevistas hechas hace décadas sin embargo con mucho paralelismo en la vida actual y que se pueden cotejar con las notas periodísticas de ayer mismo.
An interested book about life in the Maquiladora, It is a bit dated and I wonder how wages have changed since the book was published, It gave me a healthy respect for the women working in Tijuana, I had the opportunity to take classes with Dr, Norma IglesiasPrieto and all I can say is that her outstanding work, experience and research make her one of the best scholars in the field.
Though the book now is a bit outdated, the research done finely portrays the realities lived by the young women at the Maquilas, it also describes in detail the abuses of power, the sexual offers done by their morbid bosses, the labor abuse, the mental abuse, the health hazards each worker must endure, and many other levels of hardships being told by the lone voices of those who work at the Maquiladoras.
this is a really great
book if you like socio economical information about the mexico/us border life of women working in the sweat shops.
. . it's crazy and truely helps understand what a disservice the free trade agreement is to the WORLD community, . . yes it affects the whole world! I never would have read this book outside of an anthropology class, so I was delighted to find it not only informative, but absolutely fascinating and easy to read without actually being an anthropology student.
Published originally as La flor mas bella de la maquiladora, this beautifully written book is based on interviews the author conducted with more than fifty Mexican women who work in the assembly plants along the U.
S. Mexico border. A descriptive analytic study conducted in the lates, the book uses compelling testimonials to detail the struggles these women face.
The experiences of women in maquiladoras are attracting increasing attention from scholars, especially in the context of ongoing Mexican migration to the country's northern frontier and in light of the North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA.
This book is among the earliest accounts of the physical and psychological toll exacted from the women who labor in these plants.
Iglesias Prieto captures the idioms of these working women so that they emerge as dynamic individuals, young and articulate personalities, inexorably engaged in the daily struggle to change the fundamental conditions of their exploitation.
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