The Terror of the Machine: Technology, Work, Gender, and Ecology on the U.S.-Mexico Border

by Devon Gerardo Peña

Book Overview

Born of thirteen years of field research, this interdisciplinary work explores the complex intersections of technology, class, gender, and ecology in the transnational milieu of Mexico's maquiladoras, foreign-owned assembly plants located along the U.S. border.

Devon Pe a examines workplace and community struggles from the perspective of the women who work in the maquiladoras. He describes the workers' struggles for workplace...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292765622
• ISBN13: 9780292765627
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 477 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.2"