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screen capture, Google result Untitled ... United States' efforts at labor organization in Mexico are a gendered set of phenomena that reveal assumptions about women maquiladora worders that further ... lanic.utexas.edu/project/labor95/haberland.html - 7k - Cached - Similar pages.

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screen capture, ABSTRACT: Heading South: A Gendered Vision of the US Textile and Garment Industries' Move to Mexico, Michelle Haberland, Tulane University. The American textile and garment manufacturing industries began in the Northeast over a century ago. Since that time, these industries have moved south in an effort to undermine organized labor and to find less expensive labor costs. This overall trend southward began in the Northeast in the early 1930s, when large textile and garment companies considered a move to the South, where labor costs were less expensive and where the obstacles brought about by organized labor could be avoided. Industrial capitalists looked at the Piedmont region of the South as an opportunity to make their industry more efficient and profitable. A few decades later, the textile and garment industries were again heading south, this time to Mexico. The expansion of textile and garment manufacturing industries into Mexico in the decades after World War II resulted in profound changes in the ways in whic certain Mexican societies ordered themselves. The introduction of maquiladora industry to communities from the Yucatan to the border regions brought with it changes in the ways than mena nd women thought of themselves. Their understandings of the roles prescribed for them changes as mauilas brought increased occupational opportunities for women. The increasing feminization of the labor force brought with it a change in the roles for women in Mexican society. With the opening up of the maquila factories, women were no longer marginal workers in capitalist production. Instead, women with jobs assembling garments and manufacturing textiles assumed jobs that were central tp (sic) production and, in so doing, they assumed (at least in part) the traditional roles of men.

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