Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora: Life Histories of Women Workers in Tijuana (Translations from Latin America Series)

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Published firstly as La flor mas bella de la maquiladora, this beautifully written book is in line with interviews the writer conducted with more than fifty Mexican women who work within the assembly plants along the U.S.-Mexico border. A descriptive analytic study conducted within the late 1970s, the book uses compelling testimonials to detail the struggles these women face.

The experiences of women in maquiladoras are attracting increasing attention from scholars, especially within the context of ongoing Mexican migration to the country’s northern frontier and in light of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This book is without doubt one of the earliest accounts of the physical and psychological toll exacted from the ladies who labor in these plants. Iglesias Prieto captures the idioms of these working women in order that they emerge as dynamic individuals, young and articulate personalities, inexorably engaged within the day-to-day struggle to modify the fundamental conditions in their exploitation.

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