Contesting restructuring, transforming representation : autoworkers and the gendered struggle for counter-hegemony in Mexico

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1999-02

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Department of Political Science, Carleton University

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This dissertation examines three examples of resistance within Mexican labour unions during a period of sustained crisis at the national level, as well as at the level of world order. 1 argue that crisis in Mexico cannot be understood without an examination of the social relations of both class and gender. I develop this argument through a neo-Gramscian analysis of crisis, hegemony and struggles for counter-hegemony, as these are conditioned by relations of class and gender …

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MEXICO, AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY, GLOBALIZATION, TRADE LIBERALIZATION, TRADE UNION ACTIVISTS, LABOUR MOVEMENTS, SOCIAL ACTION, SOCIAL STRUCTURE, CIVIL SOCIETY, GENDER, RESISTANCE TO OPPRESSION

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