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The volume is a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing an enormously significant region in ways that clarify the kind of everyday life and work that is generated in a major urban global manufacturing site amid insecurity, inequality, and a virtually absent state.

"At the center of the 2,000 mile U.S.-Mexico border, a sprawling transnational urban space has mushroomed into a metropolitan region with over two million people whose livelihoods depend on global manufacturing, cross-border trade, and border control jobs. Our volume advances knowledge on urban space, gender, education, security, and work, focusing on Ciudad Jur̀ez, the export-processing (maquiladora) manufacturing capital of the Americas and the infamous site of femicide and outlier murder rates connected with arms and drug trafficking. Given global economic trends, this transnational urban region is a likely paradigmatic future for other world regions"--Provided by publisher.

Cover -- Half Title -- About the Book and Editor -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Development of Ciudad Juárez: Urbanization, Migration, Industrialization -- Chapter 2. Patterns of Urban Growth in Ciudad Juárez -- Chapter 3. Land Use Structure and the Availability of Services in Ciudad Juárez -- Chapter 4. Household Structure and Activity in Ciudad Juárez -- Chapter 5. Economic Change and Ideological Lag in Households of Maquila Workers in Ciudad Juárez -- Chapter 6. Human Resources and Economic Development in Ciudad Juárez -- Chapter 7. The Foreign Orientation of the Ciudad Juárez Economy -- Appendix: Juárez Household Survey -- Index -- Contributors.