MIRACLE TO CRISIS IN MEXICO: CREATING AND CONTROLLING THE INDUSTRIAL LABOR FORCE (QUERETARO).
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Title
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MIRACLE TO CRISIS IN MEXICO: CREATING AND CONTROLLING THE INDUSTRIAL LABOR FORCE (QUERETARO).
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Identifier
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AAI8801725
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identifier
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8801725
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Creator
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KEREN, DONNA J.
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Contributor
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June Nash
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Date
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1987
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Anthropology, Cultural
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Abstract
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This anthropological case study of an expanding and contracting manufacturing labor force in urban Queretaro, Mexico, focuses on the relationship between the changing population of workers and the interests of the companies which employ them. Based upon a participant-observer approach, the research was conducted during the initial period of severe economic downturn and social dislocation, from late 1981 to 1983, referred to in Mexico as the Crisis. The study draws upon the literature that focuses analysis of the processes and contradictions of industrialization on the social relations of production in a cultural context, particularly labor recruitment and labor process. The research design was based upon interviews with corporate managers, as a result the data reflect their world view: the implementation on a daily basis of the decisions of capital accumulation and their control of labor. The six chapters of the dissertation begin with an introduction to the issues, then focus on the dynamic and contradictory forces making the labor force during Queretaro's boom years, and on the managers' efforts to create and then control the new industrial labor force over time. The on-going crisis conditions after 1982 made the increasing pressures and implementation of management control more accessible to study.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Anthropology
