developing workwear for women in male dominated manual occupations. Making use of ethnographic methods and analysis can be …

"Studies on free trade zones (FTZ) work contend that employment at transnational factories does not empower women in … the long term. While I agreed that the economic and social power attained seem to diminish once women stop working, I … wondered what happened to the oppositional consciousness, new knowledge, and changed sense of self women workers had acquired …