{"product_id":"the-terror-of-the-machine","title":"The Terror of the Machine","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorn of thirteen years of field research, this interdisciplinary work explores the complex intersections of technology, class, gender, and ecology in the transnational milieu of Mexico's \u003ci\u003emaquiladoras,\u003c\/i\u003e foreign-owned assembly plants located along the U.S. border.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDevon Peña examines workplace and community struggles from the perspective of the women who work in the \u003ci\u003emaquiladoras.\u003c\/i\u003e He describes the workers' struggles for workplace democracy, social justice, and sustainable development. He also observes the circulation of struggle from the factory to the community, highlighting the efforts to establish worker-owned cooperatives in the border region during the 1970s and 1980s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFemale \u003ci\u003emaquila\u003c\/i\u003e workers are typically portrayed as passive, apolitical, and easily exploited. This book, however, presents an opposing view, investigating the \"subaltern life of the shop floor\"—the workers' informal methods of resistance to hazardous conditions, sexual harassment, and managerial tyranny. Using survey research, oral history, discourse analysis, and site ethnography, the author develops a cogent critique of labor-process theory, a critique grounded on his extensive study of actual workplace politics in the \u003ci\u003emaquiladoras.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Terror of the Machine\u003c\/i\u003e is a trenchant analysis of the political, cultural, and environmental effects of \u003ci\u003emaquila\u003c\/i\u003e industrialization and an eloquent and persuasive call for alternatives in the direction of ecologically sustainable and culturally appropriate modes of development.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"By Devon G. Peña","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53616280535420,"sku":"9780292765627","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780292765627.jpg?v=1741268656","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/the-terror-of-the-machine","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}