02690nam 2200589 450 991079082550332120230803022651.01-4529-4009-6(CKB)2550000001170363(EBL)1581501(SSID)ssj0001081808(PQKBManifestationID)11580304(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001081808(PQKBWorkID)11090893(PQKB)11467961(MiAaPQ)EBC1581501(Au-PeEL)EBL1581501(CaPaEBR)ebr10819313(CaONFJC)MIL552250(OCoLC)866444998(EXLCZ)99255000000117036320140102d2013 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrFires on the border the passionate politics of labor organizing on the Mexican frontera /Rosemary HennessyMinneapolis, Minnesota :University of Minnesota Press,2013.©20131 online resource (329 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-7962-2 1-306-20999-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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;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.Offshore assembly industryEmployeesLabor unionsMexican-American Border RegionLabor unionsOrganizingMexican-American Border RegionWomen offshore assembly industry workersMexican-American Border RegionOffshore assembly industryEmployeesLabor unionsLabor unionsOrganizingWomen offshore assembly industry workers331.89/1209721Hennessy Rosemary944564MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790825503321Fires on the border3697808UNINA