Sweaters: Gender, Class, and Workshop-Based Industry in Mexico (International Political Economy Series)

Fiona Wilson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 214-216) And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Industrial Restructuring and Regional Growth....Pages 1-22 The Region and its History....Pages 23-33 Economic and Social Relations before 1960....Pages 34-75 The Rise of a Rural Industry....Pages 76-121 Labour Relations and Workers’ Strategies....Pages 122-156 Relations of Gender and Class Outside the Workshops....Pages 157-190 A Tentative Model of Workshop-based Production....Pages 191-204 Back Matter....Pages 205-224 An examination of the development of workshops and their differentiation over the last 25 years which discusses the way that gender and class relations have moulded industrial organization whilst being themselves reformulated over time.