We are in this dance together : gender, power, and globalization at a Mexican garment firm.
We Are in This Dance Together uses in-depth interviews with over sixty workers, managers, and policy makers to document and analyze events leading up to the female-led factory strike in March 2001 at a high-end producer of men's suits in Mexico and the strike's aftermath-including harassme...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : We Are in This Dance Together
- Chapter 1. Contextualizing the Case of Moctezuma
- Chapter 2. I Like Piecework More ... Because I Work for Myself
- Chapter 3. From Piecework to Teamwork: Translating Theory into Practice
- Chapter 4. Becoming a Worker: Discovering the Shop Floor and the Contested Nature of Self-Managed Teams
- Chapter 5. Lean during Mean Times
- Chapter 6. The Strike: From Motherhood to Workers' Rights
- Chapter 7. We Lost Control of the Shop Floor: Flexible Taylorism and the Demise of the FirmConclusion
- Conslusion: We Are Workers, Not Beggars
- Appendix A. The Workforce at Moctezuma
- Appendix B. Past Work Employment Classification Methods
- Appendix C. Reprimands in Worker Files, 1993-2001
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index.