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From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras - Gender, Labor, and Globalization in Nicaragua (Paperback)
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From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras - Gender, Labor, and Globalization in Nicaragua (Paperback)
Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions
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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, "Maria 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.Mendez draws on interviews
with leaders and program participants, including maquiladora
workers; her participant observation while she worked as a
volunteer within the organization; and analysis of the public
statements, speeches, and texts written by mec members. She
provides a sense of the day-to-day operations of the group as well
as its strategies. By exploring the tension between mec and
transnational feminist, labor, and solidarity networks, she
illustrates how mec women's outlooks are shaped by both their
revolutionary roots within the Sandinista regime and their exposure
to global discourses of human rights and citizenship. The
complexities of the women's labor movement analyzed in From the
Revolution to the Maquiladoras speak to social and economic justice
movements in the many locales around the world.
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