ANTB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gender Role, Structural Violence, Maquiladora
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Notes on mayan youth and rural industrialization in guatemala (linda green) Zona libre (free-trade zone: (maquila factories) have factories that are employing thousands of workers, rely mostly on young mayan women for their labor force. Impoverished mayas make up the majority of guatemala"s population feel most intensely the impact of drastic reductions in social service expenditures and the lifting price controls on basic foods & increasing unemployment and scant work opportunities in low-paid jobs. Maquila factories in rural guatemala may operate as new sites of exploitation: by reinforcing and intensifying existing inequalities and intergenerational tensions, and manufacturing powerlessness among rural mayan adolescents, while simultaneously seducing them with modernity"s desires. New economic and sociopolitical dislocations (i. e. case factory labor by. Mayan daughters) re-work in complex ways notions of gender, power, labor, modernity and culture/family for mayan adolescents: caught between two worlds. Cultural only partially intact, wholly diminished with scant resoruces for creating a future.
