"Nine works utilize various methodologies to examine migration and maquiladoras in Tijuana and Ciudad Juárez focusing on gender relations, living conditions, and labor activities of women and families. Topics include international migration among undocumented women, family structure and women's...

Disposable women and other myths of global capitalism -- Disposable daughters and factory fathers -- Manufacturing bodies -- The dialectics of still life: murder, women, and disposability -- Maquiladora mestizas and a feminist border politics -- Crossing the factory frontier -- Paradoxes and...

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 State Meets Capital: The Making and Unmaking of a New Chinese Working Class -- 2 Marching from the Village: Women’s Struggles between Work and Family -- 3 The Social Body, the Art of Discipline and Resistance -- 4 Becoming...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables, and Boxes -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. American Factories in Mexico -- 2. The Border City of Nogales -- 3. House to House: The Method of Analysis -- 4. The History of the Maquila Industry -- 5. Are the...