In Working Women into the Borderlands, author Sonia Hernández sheds light on how women’s labor was shaped by US capital in the northeast region of Mexico and how women’s labor activism simultaneously shaped the nature of foreign investment and relations between Mexicans and Americans. As capital investments fueled the growth of heavy industries in cities and ports such as Monterrey and Tampico, women’s work complemented and strengthened their male counterparts’ labor in industries which were historically male-dominated. As Hernández reveals, women laborers were expected to maintain their “proper” place in society, and work environments were in fact gendered and class-based. Yet, these prescribed notions of class and gender were frequently challenged as women sought to improve their livelihoods by using everyday forms of negotiation including collective organizing, labor arbitration boards, letter writing, creating unions, assuming positions of confianza (“trustworthiness”), and by migrating to urban centers and/or crossing into Texas. Drawing extensively on bi-national archival sources, newspapers, and published records, Working Women into the Borderlands demonstrates convincingly how women’s labor contributions shaped the development of one of the most dynamic and contentious borderlands in the globe.
Sonia Hernández tells the story of how Piña and other Mexicanas in the Gulf of Mexico region fought for labor rights both locally and abroad in service to the anarchist ideal of a worldwide community of workers.
This rich collection highlights both the structural inequities faced by Mexican women in the borderlands and the creative ways they have responded to them. Contributors.
On ethnic Mexican women's activism within a framework of modernization, see González, “Jovita Idar,” Hernández, Working Women into the Borderlands, and Lomas, “Transborder Discourse”; on American women's activism, see Scott, ...
12. sonia Hernández, Working Women into the Borderlands (College station: texas a&M University Press, 2014); John Mason Hart, Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico since the Civil War (Berkeley: University of California Press, ...
Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists in the Mexican-American Working Class Justin Akers Chacón ... Sonia Hernández, Working Women into the Borderlands (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2014), Chapter 5. 67.
For decades, American hungers sustained Tijuana. In this scientific detective story, a public health expert reveals what happens when a border city's lifeline is brutally severed.
His work focuses on ethnography with women inside drug trade organizations. He has authored “Drug Traffickers ... He is an interdisciplinary borderlands scholar working at the intersection of anthropology, history, and Chicanx Studies.
... Laura Hooton, Josh MacFadyen, Todd Meyers, Peter S Morris, Andrew Dunlop, ... Some of the essays here deal with agricultural history in the US-Mexican ...
For an excellent example of the use of Indians in myth and memory, see Paul H. Carlson and Tom Crum, Myth Memory and Massacre: The Pease River Capture of Cynthia Ann Parker (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2010).
She is the author of Working Women into the Borderlands (Texas A&M University Press, 2014). SHARON P. HOLLAND is the Townsend Ludington Distinguished Endowed Professor and chair of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at ...