Thesis--Wayne State University, Dept. of Education. / Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis--University of Wisconsin-Madison. / Vita. Photocopy of typescript. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1980. -- 22 cm. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 361-383).

Thesis--Wisconsin. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 304-328).

by Tse Chun-cheong. / Bibliography : leaves 86-88 / Thesis (M.B.A.) - Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1982

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1978. / Carbon copy of typescript.

There is no abstract available for this dissertation.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Carleton University, 1988. / Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (M.A.)--Rowan University, 2005. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 1985.

The establishment of the Border Industrialization Program (BIP) between Mexico and the United States in 1965 led to the creation of free-trade zone assembly factories--or maquiladoras--along Mexico's Northern border and in the interior. Thousands of Mexican women have since entered the industrial export sector as maquiladora workers, and make up the majority of unskilled and semi-skilled assemblers in electronic and apparel maquila plants. This paper agues that maquiladora managers' preference for women is the result of an unquestioning belief in the gender-specific traits of women--such as dexterity, docility, patience--and well-calculated hiring and personnel policies, which have been designed not only to take advantage of the patriarchal system in Mexico and women's weaker social, political and economic position, but to maintain and control women's qualities of "cheapness", "docility", and "productivity", to the advantage of business.