Adarga Mireya Scarone, Becerril Leonor Cedillo, Champion Catalina Denman
Concordia No. 30, Villa Satélite, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico 83200.
New Solut. 2010;20(4):479-95. doi: 10.2190/NS.20.4.f.
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.
这项工作是对墨西哥索诺拉州诺加利斯市出口加工行业中一群40岁及以上的男性和女性进行的定性社会文化调查的一部分。1994年，由于《北美自由贸易协定》，出口加工厂将传统的密集工作方法与新的“即时”生产规范相结合，这对工作和健康状况产生了影响，尤其是对年长或正在变老的工人。参与本研究访谈的工人显示，他们从40岁起工作功能能力就开始下降。工作组织要求、总体健康状况以及身体能力的下降，使这些40岁的工人过早地将自己视为老龄工人，并制定了因性别而异的应对策略。
