Gender, aging, and work: aging workers' strategies to confront the demands of production in maquiladora plants in Nogales, Mexico

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• Personal Author:
  Adarga MS ; Becerril LC ; Champion CD
• Description:
  This work is part of a qualitative socio-cultural investigation with a group of men and women 40 years and older in the maquila export industry in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. In 1994, as a result of the North American Free Trade Agreement, maquila plants combined traditional intensive work methods with new "just in time" production norms that impacted work and health conditions, particularly in older, or aging, workers. The workers that were interviewed for this study show a reduction in their functional ability to work starting at 40 years of age. Work organization demands, general health conditions, and a decrease in physical abilities brings these 40-year-old workers to prematurely construct an image of themselves as aging workers and to develop coping strategies that vary by gender. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Aging Coping Skills Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Mental Health Occupational Health Safety Sex Characteristics Stress, Psychological Surveys And Questionnaires Workload

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• Keywords:
  Age-factors Age-groups Coping-behavior Health-surveys Industrial-factory-workers Job-stress Physical-capacity Sex-factors Work-capability Work-capacity Work-operations Work-organization Work-performance Worker-health Workers

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• ISSN:
  1048-2911
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  479-495
• Volume:
  20
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20038971
• Citation:
  New Solut 2010 Apr; 20(4):479-495
• Contact Point Address:
  Mireya Scarone Adarga, Concordia No. 30, Villa Satélite, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico 83200
• Email:
  misca77@hotmail.com
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2010
• Performing Organization:
  University of California - Los Angeles
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20080801
• Source Full Name:
  New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy
• End Date:
  20100731
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1a80ef187c2335a56abceba6f214d4f0d4b05d02bb29df393fad8a0cb94295d1c05b1deb188f5b2e3bb3dd81a668243fe575788623912b1bccefb8c79b88edd2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/192483/cdc_192483_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 106.57 KB ]