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Wright, Melissa Webb.

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Third World women and the geography of skill.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Third World women and the geography of skill./
Author:	Wright, Melissa Webb.
Description:	334 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-01, Section: A, page: 0252.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International58-01A.
Subject:	Geography. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9719057
ISBN:	0591274604

Third World women and the geography of skill.
Wright, Melissa Webb.

Third World women and the geography of skill. - 334 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-01, Section: A, page: 0252.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Johns Hopkins University, 1997.

This dissertation combines a Marxist analysis of capitalist production with post-structuralist feminist theories of representation to address two powerful myths which have long guided the global imagination of work and workers. One myth is that unskilled work is a technical condition. Another is that women in third world contexts constitute a homogenous being. Within the offshore facilities of multinational firms, these myths converge into the story of the "unskilled third world woman." This project explores how, on the one hand, the global representation of unskilled third world women intersects with local practices for bringing this mythic figure to life. On the other, the dissertation asks how do women as social agents--"real women"--navigate this representation of them as "historical objects?"

ISBN: 0591274604Subjects--Topical Terms:

524010
Geography.

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520 $a This dissertation combines a Marxist analysis of capitalist production with post-structuralist feminist theories of representation to address two powerful myths which have long guided the global imagination of work and workers. One myth is that unskilled work is a technical condition. Another is that women in third world contexts constitute a homogenous being. Within the offshore facilities of multinational firms, these myths converge into the story of the "unskilled third world woman." This project explores how, on the one hand, the global representation of unskilled third world women intersects with local practices for bringing this mythic figure to life. On the other, the dissertation asks how do women as social agents--"real women"--navigate this representation of them as "historical objects?"
520 $a The study grows out of ethnography conducted over a two and half year period within the offshore facilities of multinational firms located in northern Mexico and in southern China. Interviews with all levels of employees, observations of work processes, and participation in various corporate activities constitute the bulk of the analyzed material.
520 $a Additionally, archival materials are used to describe the historical representation of unskilled labor as it has been drafted by human engineers. The thesis seeks how this representation guides expectations for the performance of unskilled work in contemporary settings.
520 $a Central to the thesis is the argument that an evaluation of skill tracks the intersection of discursive identities with material performances of work. Here the materiality of the body comes under scrutiny for evidence of skilled content. As such, the worker's body is a site reproduced at the articulation of discourses with material practices.
520 $a The thesis illuminates what is in store for those women who enter at the ground level of operator in the third world facilities of multinational firms. They face a tremendous historical representation backed with powerful mechanisms for reinventing the myth of "unskilled third world women" through their own actions. The power in this apparatus lies in its convergence with the local negotiations of identity that are meaningful to everyone within those offshore contexts.
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