1. EL TRABAJO DE LAS MUJERES EN LA INDUSTRIA MAQUILADORA DE MÉXICO: BALANCE DE CUATRO DÉCADAS DE ESTUDIO.
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O., María Eugenia de la
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GLOBALIZATION , *OFFSHORE assembly industry , *WOMEN'S employment , *WOMEN employees - Abstract
The Mexican-US border represents an illustrative example of the globalization processes due to the installation of assembly plants known as maquiladoras since the late sixties. This lead to massive employment of women and with it to a slow configuration of a female proletarianization in all of Mexico, which showed a strong correlation between the transnationalization of production process and the participation of working women. This article examine the convergence between maquiladoras, jobs and female employment as a complex relation that researchers have been trying to portray for almost four decades. With this in mind this paper reviews some of the main and well known academic and institutional analysis for the last few years in Mexico. This review should help to understand the complexity of female employment studies and the need to recognize these women as a distinct gender in the working world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006