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Author Lugo, Alejandro, 1962-

Title Fragmented lives, assembled parts : culture, capitalism, and conquest at the U.S.-Mexico border / Alejandro Lugo
Edition 1st ed
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 323 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Sixteenth-century conquests (1521-1598) and their postcolonial border legacies -- The invention of borderlands geography : what do Aztlán and Tenochtitlán have to do with Ciudad Juárez/Paso del Norte? -- The problem of color in Mexico and on the U.S.-Mexico border : precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial subjectivities -- Culture, class, and gender in late twentieth-century Ciudad Juárez -- Maquiladoras, gender, and culture change -- The political economy of tropes, culture, and masculinity inside an electronics factory -- Border inspections : inspecting the working-class life of maquiladora workers on the U.S-Mexico border -- Culture, class, and union politics : the daily struggle for chairs inside a sewing factory in the larger context of the working day -- Women, men, and "gender" in feminist anthropology : lessons from northern Mexico's maquiladoras -- Alternating imaginings -- Reimagining culture and power against late industrial capitalism and other forms of conquest through border theory and analysis
Summary Established in 1659 as Misión de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de los Mansos del Paso del Norte, Ciudad Juárez is the oldest colonial settlement on the U.S.-Mexico border-and one of the largest industrialized border cities in the world. Since the days of its founding, Juárez has been marked by different forms of conquest and the quest for wealth as an elaborate matrix of gender, class, and ethnic hierarchies struggled for dominance. Juxtaposing the early Spanish invasions of the region with the arrival of late-twentieth-century industrial "conquistadors," Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts documents the consequences of imperial history through ethnographic studies of working-class factory life. By comparing the social and human consequences of recent globalism with the region's pioneer era, Alejandro Lugo demonstrates the ways in which class mobilization is itself constantly being "unmade" at both the international and personal levels for border workers. Both an inside account of maquiladora practices and a social history, this is an interdisciplinary survey of the legacies, tropes, economic systems, and gender-based inequalities reflected in a unique cultural landscape. Through a framework of theoretical conceptualizations applied to a range of facets--from multiracial "mestizo" populations to the notions of border "crossings" and "inspections," as well as the recent brutal killings of working-class women in Ciudad Juárez--Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts provides an understanding of the effect of transnational corporations on contemporary Mexico, calling for official recognition of the desperate need for improved working and living conditions within this community. --From publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-301) and index
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Subject Offshore assembly industry -- Mexico -- Ciudad Juárez -- Employees
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Knowledge Capital.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy.
Offshore assembly industry -- Employees
Social conditions
Arbeitnehmer
Maquiladora
Soziale Situation
Grenzgebiet
Sozialgeschichte
Kolonialismus
Humankapital
Elektronikindustrie
Bekleidungsindustrie
Kraftfahrzeugindustrie
Geschlechterverhältnis
Soziale Klasse
SUBJECT Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) -- Social conditions
Subject Mexico -- Ciudad Juárez
Ciudad Juárez
USA
Mexiko
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780292794207
0292794207