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Maquiladora Reader

Review

This extraordinary book tells the little-known but heroic story of how workers in the maquiladoras have organized themselves to change conditions in their workplaces and communities - and how they have forged alliances on both sides of the border. Their grassroots yet transnational movement teaches the lessons we need to start taking on the destructive aspects of globalization everywhere. — Jeremy Brecher, author of Global Village or Global Pillage: Economic Reconstruction from the Bottom Up.

The Maquiladora Reader brings us all up to speed on the complex realities of life on the Mexico-U.S. border, never reducing women workers to mere victims, revealing them to be analyzing, strategizing agents, whose actions will play a major part in determining the future direction of globalization. — Cynthia Enloe, author of Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics.