Gendering Globalization On The Ground: The Limits Of Feminized Work For Mexican Women's Empowerment (Routledge Research In Gender And Society)

How has globalization worked for women working on the frontlines of neoliberalism on the Mexico-US border? This critical comparison of socially similar women, working either in export production industries or in small-scale commerce and low-level services in Ciudad Juárez, reveals how export factory work constrains women's empowerment at home - as well as the wages they earn and the well-being of their households. It challenges neoliberal notions of empowering women to work for market growth, and analyzes women's empowerment as gender democracy to counter neoliberal globalization touching down in the lives of ordinary working women.

• • Author: Gay Young
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Nov 01, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 260 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1138809829
• • ISBN-13: 9781138809826