The Terror of the Machine: Technology, Work, Gender, and Ecology on the U.S.-Mexico Border

Devon G. Pena: The Terror of the Machine: Technology, Work, Gender, and Ecology on the U.S.-Mexico Border. Austin: CMAS Books, University of Texas at Austin, 1997.

After more than 15 years of critical commentary and research on industrialization in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Pena has published his most complete and multi-dimensional analysis yet. Working at the intersection of technology, class, gender, and ecology, Pena weaves extensive surveys and interviews of maquiladora (export-processing plant) workers with new theoretical contributions on the development of Fordist hegemonies in a global assembly line. More specifically, this...