{"product_id":"the-terror-of-the-machine-technology-work-gender-and-ecology-on-the-usmexico-border-cmas-border-migration-studies-series-9780292765627","title":"The Terror of the Machine: Technology  Work  Gender  and Ecology on the U.S.-Mexico Border (CMAS Border \u0026 Migration Studies Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorn of thirteen years of field research  this interdisciplinary work explores the complex intersections of technology  class  gender  and ecology in the transnational milieu of Mexicos maquiladoras  foreign-owned assembly plants located along the U.S. border. Devon Pea examines workplace and community struggles from the perspective of the women who work in the maquiladoras. He describes the workers struggles for workplace democracy  social justice  and sustainable development. He also observes the circulation of struggle from the factory to the community  highlighting the efforts to establish worker-owned cooperatives in the border region during the 1970s and 1980s. Female maquila workers are typically portrayed as passive  apolitical  and easily exploited. This book  however  presents an opposing view  investigating the \"subaltern life of the shop floor\"the workers informal methods of resistance to hazardous conditions  sexual harassment  and managerial tyranny. Using survey research  oral history  discourse analysis  and site ethnography  the author develops a cogent critique of labor-process theory  a critique grounded on his extensive study of actual workplace politics in the maquiladoras. The Terror of the Machine is a trenchant analysis of the political  cultural  and environmental effects of maquila industrialization and an eloquent and persuasive call for alternatives in the direction of ecologically sustainable and culturally appropriate modes of development.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648212099125,"sku":"ByrdShop_0292765622","price":44.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780292765627.jpg?v=1781712878","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-terror-of-the-machine-technology-work-gender-and-ecology-on-the-usmexico-border-cmas-border-migration-studies-series-9780292765627","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}