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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"maquiladora workers"”.
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Designing housing in the third world : a prototype for housing the Maquiladora workers in the northern cities of Mexico
The difficulty in designing low-income housing is !hat. it will not sit quietly, other problems keep Jostling about it. To design low-income housing one must consider the extreme conditions of poverty and urban problems, deal with sociology, history, politics and the economy. The second difficulty …
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The recyclists : bikes, borders and basura
… cities in Mexico. They give these bicycles to maquiladora workers who would otherwise spend a large portion of their income on transportation. These workers make a fraction of what they would in the U.S. and live in shacks amid the pollution from the factories they work in. This is the story of …
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Women and class: Power dynamics in contemporary Mexican literature and culture
… Chapter 4, “The Borders of Crime and Gender in Maquiladora Cultural Production,” looks at the “punishment” to which maquiladora workers are subjected for altering the patriarchal order of society. By exploring the power dynamics in the workplace, this project seeks to bring previously overlooked …