Fires on the Border: The Passionate Politics of Labor Organizing on the Mexican Frontera

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The history of the "maquiladoras" has been punctuated by workers' organized resistance to abysmal working and living conditions. Over years of involvement in such movements, Rosemary Hennessy was struck by an elusive but significant feature of these struggles: the extent to which organizing is driven by attachments of affection and antagonis

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"Fires on the Border addresses a clear gap in the scholarship on transnational movements and organizing along the Mexico-U.S. divide: the role of sexuality in the creation of affective bonds within social alliances and political networks that span the grassroots to the transnational. In this timely, excellent book, Rosemary Hennessy incorporates a political economic analysis in her discussion of affective alliances in social movements (binational and/or transnational) among workers affected by the maquiladora industry."Melissa W. Wright, author of Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism

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Rosemary Hennessy is L. H. Favrot Professor of Humanities, professor of English, and director of the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University.