The intended research objective of the study was to demonstrate the states central role in the labor process by looking at racialized and gendered aspects of stat policies, especially in the U.S. Mexico border region. Munoz recognized that even though there have been studies regarding comparison of the labor process between different countries but felt they were leaving other parts of the story out. More specifically, how depending on gender, race and immigration status shape the working conditions of individuals between two factories of residing on the border of US and Mexico. Furthermore, Munoz guided the study with her analysis on state policies for migration, labor, trade and foreign investment implemented in the USA and Mexico to better
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Furthermore the environments for a light skinned women might have created problems considering in Baja California the managers would pit light skinned females against darker skinned females and just being a women in general in the US factory a were a predominantly male labor force exist. In addition, Munoz had to modify the way she was collecting data due to the fact she was unable to conduct participation observation by working at the factory and she was told not to interview the shop employees. However, knowing the interview of the labor force was significant in her data collection she had to go in a manner in which she can gain the trust of the workers and not come off as a spy. Therefore, in order to remain gaining access to the factories she started her data collection using the method of observation and conducted interviews of the workers outside the factory in either coffee shops or remote locations, sometimes compensating the workers for there …show more content…
For instance in both factories there is an inequality of workers, in the US the treatment of workers is directly related to US immigration laws and in Mexico the gender and race play a role of the treatment of the workers. The course material throughout the semester included everything found in the study by Munoz in regards to how gender, race, and the state all play a role in the way a culture reacts towards a certain group of the society. For example the assignment in module three regarding coming of age, all the individuals in the study had one thing in coming being they were growing up, however do to the different cultures their coming of age was very different. I would compare this to the different regimes of the factories, meaning both factories are operated under the same company however they are very different. Their differences being the US a migration regime compared to Baja California’s gender regime. As stated in (Galvan, J. 2010) These regimes are constructed with the aim of producing social divisions in the workplace as they allow managers to deploy methods of labor control that pit documented and undocumented workers against each other in one case, and light skinned and dark skinned female workers against each other in the other. In the USA, making tortillas is constructed as
Furthermore the environments for a light skinned women might have created problems considering in Baja California the managers would pit light skinned females against darker skinned females and just being a women in general in the US factory a were a predominantly male labor force exist. In addition, Munoz had to modify the way she was collecting data due to the fact she was unable to conduct participation observation by working at the factory and she was told not to interview the shop employees. However, knowing the interview of the labor force was significant in her data collection she had to go in a manner in which she can gain the trust of the workers and not come off as a spy. Therefore, in order to remain gaining access to the factories she started her data collection using the method of observation and conducted interviews of the workers outside the factory in either coffee shops or remote locations, sometimes compensating the workers for there …show more content…
For instance in both factories there is an inequality of workers, in the US the treatment of workers is directly related to US immigration laws and in Mexico the gender and race play a role of the treatment of the workers. The course material throughout the semester included everything found in the study by Munoz in regards to how gender, race, and the state all play a role in the way a culture reacts towards a certain group of the society. For example the assignment in module three regarding coming of age, all the individuals in the study had one thing in coming being they were growing up, however do to the different cultures their coming of age was very different. I would compare this to the different regimes of the factories, meaning both factories are operated under the same company however they are very different. Their differences being the US a migration regime compared to Baja California’s gender regime. As stated in (Galvan, J. 2010) These regimes are constructed with the aim of producing social divisions in the workplace as they allow managers to deploy methods of labor control that pit documented and undocumented workers against each other in one case, and light skinned and dark skinned female workers against each other in the other. In the USA, making tortillas is constructed as