The Terror of the Machine: Technology, Work, Gender, and Ecology on the U.S.-Mexico Border
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The Terror of the Machine: Technology, Work, Gender, and Ecology on the U.S.-Mexico Border
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The Terror of the Machine: Technology, Work, Gender, and Ecology on the U.S.-Mexico Border

The Terror of the Machine: Technology, Work, Gender, and Ecology on the U.S.-Mexico Border

by Devon G. Peña
The Terror of the Machine: Technology, Work, Gender, and Ecology on the U.S.-Mexico Border

The Terror of the Machine: Technology, Work, Gender, and Ecology on the U.S.-Mexico Border

by Devon G. Peña

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ISBN-13: 9780292746190
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 10/14/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 477
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Devon G. Peña is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
viii(1)
Acknowledgments ix
Part One THE TERROR OF THE MACHINE 3(100)
1. "No Terrors, to a Certain Kind of Mind"
3(22)
2. From Dark, Satanic Mills to Maquilas
25(30)
3. (Mis) Measuring the Ignorant
55(48)
Part Two TERRAINS OF STRUGGLE 103(74)
4. Like Turtles on the Line
103(32)
5. The Mirror of Exploitation
135(42)
Part Three MOTHERS OF INVENTION 177(68)
6. Mexican Thinkwork
177(36)
7. Marginality as Inventive Force
213(32)
Part Four BACK TO THE FUTURE 245(90)
8. Mexico in the Fast Lane?
245(34)
9. Promised Land or Wasteland?
279(56)
Notes 335(56)
References 391(42)
Index 433
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