In recent years regions of rural Mexico have specialized in small-scale industry, much of which rests on women's labour. Hidden in people's houses or backstreet workshops, the scale and nature of the industrialization process is difficult to fathom. This book explores the histories, actions and opinions of people from one, small centre during an earlier phase of violence and impoverishment and in later years when work-shops have flourished. Two main themes arise: workshop expansion and differentiation over the past 25 years; the way that gender and class relations have moulded industrial organization while being themselves reformulated over time.
- ISBN10 0333538293
- ISBN13 9780333538296
- Publish Date June 1991
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 September 1995
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English