In "Working Women into the Borderlands," author Sonia Hernandez sheds light on how women's labor was shaped by US capital in the northeast region of Mexico and how women's labor activism simultaneously shaped the nature of foreign investment and relations between Mexicans and Americans. As capital investments fueled the growth of heavy industries in cities and ports such as Monterrey and Tampico, women's work complemented and strengthened their male counterparts' labor in industries which were historically male-dominated.
As Hernandez reveals, women laborers were expected to maintain...

Uses agricultural history to connect the regional experiences of the American West, northern Mexico, western Canada, and the North American side of the Pacific Rim. Case studies of commodity production and distribution, trans-border agricultural labour, and environmental change unite to reveal new perspectives on a historiography traditionally limited to a regional approach.