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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790825503321

Autore

Hennessy Rosemary

Titolo

Fires on the border : the passionate politics of labor organizing on the Mexican frontera / / Rosemary Hennessy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minnesota : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-4529-4009-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Disciplina

331.89/1209721

Soggetti

Offshore assembly industry - Employees - Labor unions - Mexican-American Border Region

Labor unions - Organizing - Mexican-American Border Region

Women offshore assembly industry workers - Mexican-American Border Region

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Introduction; I. History, Affect, Representation; 1. Labor Organizing in Mexico's Entangled Economies; 2. The Materiality of Affect; 3. Bearing Witness; II. Sex, Labor, Movement; 4. Open Secrets; 5. The Value of a Second Skin; 6. Feeling Bodies, Jeans, Justice; 7. The North-South Encuentros; III. The Utopian Question; 8. Love in the Common; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Fires on the Border takes up questions of labor and community organizing-its "affect-culture"-on Mexico's northern border from the early 1970's to the present day. Through these campaigns, Rosemary Hennessy illuminates the attachments and identifications that motivate people to act on behalf of one another and that bind them to a common cause.