Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Early Industrialization in Mexico Chapter 3 Internationalization and Privatization: Industrialization after 1976 Chapter 4 The Old Model: A Case Study of State-Led Industrialization Chapter 5 The New Model: A Case Study of the Maquiladora Industry Chapter 6 Single-Sex Worker Dormitories in the Maquiladora Factory Regime Chapter 7 Comparative Household Formation: Analysis of Change Chapter 8 Conclusion
Altha J. Cravey is assistant professor of geography at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
This is a great book. Easy to read, it provides a fascinating
account of how changes in industrial structure brought about by
Mexico's shift from a state-led industrialization to one led by
market forces and guided by neo-liberal principles are bringing
with them changes in family structure, living arrangements, and
processes of social reproduction as the old
'male-wage-earning-nuclear-family' as ideal is gradually being
replaced by new patterns of household formation. As an intellectual
contribution to the literature on gender, development, and labor,
Altha Cravey's Women and Work in Mexico's Maquiladoras is a
first-rate book that deserves to be read widely.
*Annals of the Association of American Geographers*
Accessible to upper-division undergraduates and up.
*CHOICE, July / August 1999, Vol. 36, No. 11/12*
Altha Cravey broadens the scope of analysis concerning gender and
industrial transformations. Cravey's analysis moves beyond the shop
floor to include the organization of production and, especially,
social reproduction in different industrial regions. Thus this book
incorporates far more than the title suggests.
*Economic Geography*
Altha Cravey's book manages to provide some new insights into the
relationships between different industrial production regimes, the
state, and changes in social relations and reproduction.
*Progress In Human Geography*
The book is useful in showing that Mexico had a fully constituted
industrial system before maquiladoras developed and that workers in
the new system have lost a great deal in the transition.
*New Mexico Historical Review*
A significant contribution to the literature on industrialization,
social reproduction, and households. Altha Cravey rightly places
gender in strategic considerations of these areas. With its rich
field research and creative, spatially developed research design,
this book is highly recommended for courses on the sociology of
development, of gender, and of international studies.
*Kathleen Staudt, University of Texas at El Paso*
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