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Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. History, Affect, Representation -- 1. Labor Organizing in Mexico's Entangled Economies -- 2. The Materiality of Affect -- 3. Bearing Witness -- II. Sex, Labor, Movement -- 4. Open Secrets -- 5. The Value of a Second Skin -- 6. Feeling Bodies, Jeans, Justice -- 7. The North-South Encuentros -- III. The Utopian Question -- 8. Love in the Common -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z |
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Fires on the Border takes up questions of labor and community organizing-its "affect-culture"-on Mexico's northern border from the early 1970s to the present day. Through these campaigns, Rosemary Hennessy illuminates the attachments and identifications that motivate people to act on behalf of one another and that bind them to a common cause |
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2020. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries |
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Print version: Hennessy, Rosemary Fires on the Border : The Passionate Politics of Labor Organizing on the Mexican Frontera
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,c2013 9780816679621
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Offshore assembly industry -- Employees -- Labor unions -- Mexican-American Border Region.;Labor unions -- Organizing -- Mexican-American Border Region.;Women offshore assembly industry workers -- Mexican-American Border Region
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