**NOTE** The object of this lecture is to provide some insight into the micro-level shop floor dynamics in Maquila factories. This is best understood in juxtaposition with the Global Assembly Line video and the reading by Melissa Wright**

Gender and Labor in Borderland Maquiladoras

Factory are over 85% women: this number is shrinking, however, for various reasona

a. changing industrial mix with regional 'maturity'

b. changing views of women

women more militant

Global Assembly line

1. Background:

Ford:Fordism

Taylorism: Bloody Taylorism

Technology: Products and control in the labor process

Social Regulation

Social Fordism in the 1960s

Mass production: mass consumption are linked

Fordism	Flex Spec
Post-production QT Long-run set line just-in-case warehousing standard parts total control of tech. div. of labor	Test-in QT small batch Flex line Just-in-time inventory control custom parts Social div. of labor subcontracting

2. Borderlands and Gender

a. There is a wide diversity of work experience in the borderlands
Leslie Salzinger proposes a 3-fold optic for looking at gender relations in Mexican Maquiladoras:

i. Panoptimex: women work on assembly lines,

Spatial layout: women on line, men on floor and in balcony

'if you got it, flaunt it': women and sexuality in the workplace

Desire, masculinity and the prosthetic relationship: how do male managers get women to work without doing it themselves? Sexuality, flirting, denigration, and frustration: 'they shouldn't wear minis'

Women hires on the line are most important: no men work the line

ii. Anarchomex: male workspace and male management: contestation and sexuality on the shop floor: Machismo, meek management and distancing
Women and men inhabit different workspaces

iii. Androgymex: Gender muted: skill matters most as workers are paid on a piecerate basis, and work is skilled.
Gendered workplace differences fail to materialize
Workers organize and manage the line, work is done in small, opportune assembly lines

Drive to hire women less important here, but still women form 70% of workers