Flexibility for whom?: Small-scale garment manufacturing in rural Mexico

Petty Capitalists and Globalization: Flexibility, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 67-81

  Rothstein, Frances Abrahamer ^a  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (9)

1. Elson and Pearson (1981) point out, often the result of the invisible training that women receive in childhood.
2. Marco Polos, rove the world looking for suppliers in countries where quotas restricting imports into the United States have not been reached 1986, 82.
3. San Cosme, despite the existence of numerous talleres, no garment firms are indicated in the state industrial census for 1993 (INEGI 1994:75).
4. Fernandez-Kelly Sassen (1991) the rise of "brokers" in the garment industry in southern California.
5. Piore and Sabel, Multiskilling and autonomy whereas maquila production fits what Hsiung (1996).
6. Simmons and Kalantaridis (1996) for a similar point and a discussion of how the entrepreneurial family "sweats" along with the other workers.
7. Simmons and Kalantaridis (1996) similarly note the competitive edge of family production in the garment industry.
8. Taplin, wage lowering/productivity enhancing practices in order to remain competitive (1996:14).
9. Beneria and Roldan (1987). For a useful discussion of the exploitation of low-cost family labor and diverse interests in family firms .