Doctoral Dissertation Research: Conceptualizing Skill: Female Supervisors in the Mexican Maquiladora Industry

博士论文研究：概念化技能：墨西哥加工工厂行业的女性主管

• 批准号: 9406130
• 负责人: Erica Schoenberger
• 金额: $ 0.71万
• 依托单位: Johns Hopkins University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-06-01 至 1995-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9406130&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Conceptualizing; Skill

9406130 SCHOENBERGER This research examines how technological change and the reorganization of production paradigms in multinational companies affect the vertical mobility of women workers in these facilities. Recent scholarship on changes in firm production strategies, worker-management relations, and on the training of "skilled labor" suggest that the positions held by Third World women in such facilities may not be as static as previously expected. The proposed research investigates how women in "unskilled" jobs in the "global assembly line" have acquired the "skills" qualifying them for promotion into supervisory positions. Central to the study is the way that skilled labor comes to be defined and recognized at the workplace across industries and within several factories. This research will examine how new requirements for production and renovated technologies alter the roles played by Third World workers in multinational production facilities in situ. To do this, the investigators will study the emergence of Mexican female supervisors within multinational operations in Ciudad Juarez, which is one of Mexico's largest export processing zones. Portions of this proposal are derived from preliminary research conducted in Mexico in 1992. The proposed research focuses on the use of both questionnaires and semi-structured interviews with workers, supervisors, and managers at selected plants of multinational firms located in Ciudad Juarez. This project will provide important new insights into the understanding of the ways in which multinational firms interact with the local population in industrializing areas with an emphasis on how gender relations both constitute part of the structure of the organization of manufacturing and, in turn, are redefined because of the presence of the multinational firms. As a doctoral dissertation research improvement award, this project will also provide support to enable a promising student to establish a strong indep endent research career. ***

9406130勋伯格这项研究调查了跨国公司的技术变革和生产模式的重组如何影响这些设施中女工的垂直流动。最近关于公司生产战略、工人-管理关系的变化以及“熟练劳动力”培训的学术研究表明，第三世界妇女在这些设施中担任的职位可能不像之前预期的那样一成不变。这项拟议的研究调查了在“全球装配线”中从事“无技能”工作的女性是如何获得“技能”的，从而使她们有资格晋升到主管职位。这项研究的核心是如何在不同行业和几家工厂的工作场所定义和认可熟练工人。这项研究将考察对生产和更新技术的新要求如何改变第三世界工人在当地多国生产设施中所发挥的作用。为此，调查人员将研究墨西哥最大的出口加工区之一华雷斯的跨国经营中墨西哥女性监管者的出现情况。该提案的部分内容来源于1992年在墨西哥进行的初步研究。这项拟议的研究侧重于使用问卷和对华雷斯跨国公司选定工厂的工人、主管和经理进行的半结构化访谈。该项目将为了解跨国公司如何与工业化地区的当地人口互动提供重要的新见解，强调性别关系如何既构成制造业组织结构的一部分，又因跨国公司的存在而被重新定义。作为博士论文研究改进奖，该项目还将提供支持，使有前途的学生建立一个强大的独立研究生涯。***