The maquiladora industry was established in northern Mexico with the objective of providing employment opportunities to the growing population in the region. However, the terms of employment linked to the global economy limit the organizational capacity of workers to improve their working conditions. These terms shape an emotional habitus among maquiladora workers that prevents mobilization and reinforces a “hard-working” attitude predisposed to tolerate unsatisfactory labor relations concomitant with industrial deregulation. In my investigation, I analyze the emotional habitus of workers through cultural, productive, and political deregulation mechanisms employed in the sector. The cultural tool promotes a new labor philosophy focused on safeguarding employment sources in Mexico; production schemes individualize reward and punitive systems that are installed in constellations of local and international authoritative figures; and the political component prevents legitimate forms of organization through coopted labor unions. As a result, predispositions of workers to mobilize grievances in the maquiladora industry are unlikely. This report seeks to involve the social structures of emotions in discussions concerning political behavior and social movement literature. / text

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On September 23, 1965, a small group of campesinos, teachers, and students attacked the army base in Madera, Chihuahua. In Mexico, this attack is widely considered to be the first of the socialist armed movements of the late 1960s and‘70s, inspiring the 23rd of September League and others. Nearly all the existing literature focuses on the group’s turn to armed struggle - but is this what we should remember them for? The attack was preceded by five years of public mobilizations in support of the agrarian struggle and broader demands, involving vast numbers throughout the state, in a movement that transcended political parties and engaged in direct action. It was this broad social movement that nourished and gave birth to the armed movement; it was as innovative as Arturo Gámiz’s application of Che’s Guerra de Guerrillas to the sierra. I further argue that the armed struggle itself, which developed in the remote backlands, derived as much from a long tradition of armed self-defense endemic to the region as it did to the Cuban example. I also look at the participation of women, both voluntary and involuntary, in these events and the uses to which the assault on the base has been put in recent times.

Thesis (M.A.) B.Y.U. Div. of Religion.

Thesis. 1978. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Bibliography: leaf 54. / M.S.

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La gestión de los residuos sólidos en los municipios es un aspecto importante para la protección de la salud y el medioambiente. La generación de residuos sólidos aumenta al aumentar la población, a la vez varia la composición por la actividad humana, ubicación geográfica, estilo de vida, etc. El estudio se divide en dos secciones, la primera es la caracterización de los residuos sólidos urbanos domiciliarios en la ciudad de Chihuahua y la segunda parte es la evaluación ambiental de posibles escenarios de sistema de gestión de residuos, aplicando la metodología de Análisis de Ciclo de Vida (ACV). La caracterización de residuos sólidos se realizó en tres colonias con diferente nivel salarial. Los residuos se recolectaron durante tres temporadas del año, obteniendo la fracción orgánica en mayor cantidad (47%), seguida por la de papel (19%) y plástico (15%) promedio de los tres niveles y durante las tres temporadas de análisis. La cantidad de metal y vidrio fue muy semejante en los tres niveles. La cantidad en kg per capita-1dia-1 promedio, durante las tres temporadas estudiadas, para los niveles I, II y III es de 0.522, 0.634 y 0.637 respectivamente. Se evaluó, mediante la metodología de ACV, el sistema actual de residuos en Chihuahua (llamado, Relleno Sanitario (RS) actual) y se propusieron cuatro escenarios de gestión de residuos. Los escenarios son: RS moderno, Digestión-RS moderno, ReCoRSmoderno (reciclado, compostaje y RS moderno) y ReCoIncineración (reciclado, compostaje e incineración). La unidad funcional considerada fue de una tonelada de residuos de origen y las categorías de impacto estudiadas son el agotamiento abiótico, calentamiento global, toxicidad humana, fotooxidación química, acidificación y eutrofización. Los escenarios con mayor beneficio ambiental en todas las categorías fueron el ReCoRSmoderno y ReCoIncineración, debido al reciclado de fracciones, producción de compost y recuperación de energía. El peor escenario fue el RS actual, presentando un impacto ambiental adverso debido a la emisión de gas y lixiviado sin control. / The management of the solid waste in the municipalities is an important aspect for the protection of the health and the environmental. The generation of solid waste increases with the increasing of population and its composition depends on the human activity, geographic location, life style, etc. The study is divided in two sections: the first contains the characterization of the urban solid waste in the city of Chihuahua and the second is the environmental evaluation of possible scenarios for solid waste management, applying the methodology of Life Cycle Analysis (LCA). The characterization of solid waste was realized in three neighbourhoods with different income level. The waste was collected during three seasons of the year, obtaining the organic fraction in main quantity (47%), followed by paper (17%) and plastic (13%). These results are average of the three levels and during the three seasons of analysis. The quantity of metal and glass was very similar in the three levels. The generated quantity during the studied three seasons, for the levels I, II and III is in average of 0.522, 0.634 and 0.637 kg capita-1dia-1. The current waste system in Chihuahua (called, Landfill sanitary (RS)) and also four different new scenarios of waste management were evaluated by means of the LCA methodology. The four scenarios are: modern RS, Digestion-modern RS, ReCoRSmodern (recycled, composting and modern RS), and ReCoIncineration (recycled, composting and incineration). The considered functional unit was one tonne of origin waste and the studied impact categories were the abiotic depletion, global warming, human toxicity, photo-oxidant formation, acidification and eutrophication. The scenarios with the best environmental impact in all the categories were the ReCoRSmodern and ReCoIncineration, because of the recycling of waste fractions, production of compost, and recovery of energy. The worst scenario was the current RS, presenting an adverse environmental impact because of the emissions of gas and lixiviate without control.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of Sociology, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-89).