From the revolution to the maquiladoras : gender, labor, and globalization in Nicaragua

From the revolution to the maquiladoras : gender, labor, and globalization in Nicaragua / Jennifer Bickham Mendez.

Author/creator	Méndez, Jennifer Bickham
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
Description	xiii, 284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subject(s)	Movimiento de Mujeres Trabajadoras y Desempleadas "María Elena Cuadra." Women's rights--Nicaragua --Societies, etc. Women offshore assembly industry workers--Nicaragua. Globalization--Economic aspects --Nicaragua --Sex differences.

Series	American encounters/global interactions American encounters/global interactions. ^A401985
Contents	"Just us and our worms": the working and unemployed women's movement, "María Elena Cuadra" -- Oppositional politics in Nicaragua and the formation of MEC -- Gendering power and resistance in an era of globalization -- "Autonomous but organized": MEC's search for an organizational structure -- "Rompiendo esquemas": MEC's political strategies and the free trade zone -- MEC and the postsocialist state: democracy, rights, and citizenship under globalization -- Resistance goes global: power and opposition in an age of globalization.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-265) and index.
LCCN	2005004620
ISBN	0822335522 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0822335654 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	HQ1236.5.N5 M46 2005	✔ Available	Place Hold