Women, work and technology: The participation of female workforce in the Mexican insertion into Global Value Chains.
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https://doi.org/10.22481/ccsa.v20i36.11418Keywords:
Global Value Chains, Feminist Economics, Maquiladora Export IndustryAbstract
This paper intends to expand the approaches of Global Value Chains (GVCs) for the Third World, intersecting gender analysis with debates about the economic and technological power structures that are basic to these chains. The general objective of the work is to verify how gender dynamics intersect with economic dynamics in GVCs, and also understand how these dynamics are related and self-reinforcing, with emphasis on how it worked in Mexico’s Maquiladoras. For this, it’s realized a case study of the changes and dynamics of female participation in the Maquiladora Export Industry in Mexico, analyzing the dynamics and changes in the composition of the female workforce in the sector during the period from 1980 to 2010
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