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From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras: Gender, Labor, and Globalization in Nicaragua

From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras: Gender, Labor, and Globalization in Nicaragua

Bickham Mendez, Jennifer

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Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions

AnthropologyGeneral Latin American HistoryWomen's Studies

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ISBN10: 0822335522
ISBN13: 9780822335528
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Sep 7 2005
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras is a major contribution to the study of globalization, labor, and women's movements. Jennifer Bickham Mendez presents a detailed ethnographic account of the Nicaraguan Working and Unemployed Women's Movement, María Elena Cuadra (mec), which emerged as an autonomous organization in 1994. Most of its efforts revolve around organizing women workers in Nicaragua's free trade zones and working to improve conditions in maquiladora factories. Mendez examines the structural and cultural elements of mec in order to demonstrate how globalization affects grassroots advocacy for social and economic justice. She argues that globalization has created opportunities for new forms of organizing among those local populations that suffer its effects and that mec, which has forged vital links with transnational feminist and labor groups, exemplifies the possibilities--and pitfalls--of this new type of organizing.

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