03891nam 2200673 450 991080888330332120230803195348.01-4619-5829-61-62349-139-8(CKB)2670000000530773(EBL)1637622(MiAaPQ)EBC1637622(OCoLC)871258280(MdBmJHUP)muse33563(Au-PeEL)EBL1637622(CaPaEBR)ebr10842704(CaONFJC)MIL577394(OCoLC)871224264(EXLCZ)99267000000053077320140312h20142014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierWorking women into the borderlands /Sonia Hernández ; foreword by Sterling EvansFirst edition.College Station, Texas :Texas A&M University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (258 p.)Connecting the greater west seriesDescription based upon print version of record.1-62349-041-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Norteño history as borderlands history -- Selling the Norteño borderlands: capital, land, and labor -- Peasant women's work in a changing countryside during the Porfiriato -- "We cannot suffer any longer from the patrón's bad treatment": everyday forms of peasant negotiation -- (En)Gendering revolution in the borderlands: revolucionarias, combatants, and supporters in the northeast -- Women's labor and activism in the greater Mexican borderlands, 1910-1930 -- Class, gender, and power in the postrevolutionary borderlands -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. Selected mutual-aid societies and related collective organizations in the Mexican Northeast, 1880-1910 -- Appendix 2. Selected organizations in Texas affiliated with the Partido Liberal Mexicano, 1911-1917 -- Appendix 3. Selected estatutos (by-laws) and artículos of the Unión de Obreras "Fraternidad Femenil" (Xicotencatl, Tamaulipas).In Working Women into the Borderlands, author Sonia Hernández sheds light on how women's labor was shaped by US capital in the northeast region of Mexico and how women's labor activism simultaneously shaped the nature of foreign investment and relations between Mexicans and Americans. As capital investments fueled the growth of heavy industries in cities and ports such as Monterrey and Tampico, women's work complemented and strengthened their male counterparts' labor in industries which were historically male-dominated.As Hernández reveals, women laborers were expectedConnecting the greater west series.Women labor union membersMexico, NorthHistory20th centuryWomen in the labor movementMexican-American Border RegionHistory20th centuryWomen in the labor movementMexico, NorthHistory20th centuryMexican American women labor union membersMexican-American Border RegionHistory20th centuryEconomic developmentMexico, North20th centuryEconomic developmentMexican-American Border Region20th centuryWomen labor union membersHistoryWomen in the labor movementHistoryWomen in the labor movementHistoryMexican American women labor union membersHistoryEconomic developmentEconomic development331.40972/1Hernández Sonia1976-1665552Evans Sterling1086858MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808883303321Working women into the borderlands4024247UNINA