Item – Thèses Canada

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Numéro d'OCLC
1224181395
Lien(s) vers le texte intégral
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Auteur
Redden, Stephanie M.
Titre
How capability maneuvers within exploitation: an examination of the women workers in Mexico's electronic assembly maquiladoras.
Diplôme
Master of Arts -- Acadia University, 2009
Éditeur
[Wolfville, Nova Scotia] : Acadia University 2009
Description
1 online resource
Résumé
The capability approach, developed by Amartya Sen, and later adapted by Martha Nussbaum, is a popular approach to understanding "development." This thesis analyzes women workers in Mexico's maquiladoras through Nussbaum's capabilities approach to explore the ways they are able to expand and improve their existing capability, even under the exploitative working conditions of global export factories. This thesis argues that women's lives cannot be evaluated using dichotomous categorizations such, functioning in a "truly human" way or not, as implied by Nussbaum's capabilities approach, or exploited/ empowered, as argued in much of the maquiladora literature. Instead, this thesis presents a more nuanced depiction of women's working lives by constructing a typology of the ways that women workers can be seen to be both informally and formally resisting and maneuvering to exercise and improve their capability even under the most exploitative conditions of the maquiladoras.
Autre lien(s)
scholar.acadiau.ca
Sujet
LE3 .A278 2010