Sponsor
Portland State University. Department of Geography
First Advisor
Martha Works
Term of Graduation
Summer 1987
Date of Publication
7-17-1987
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (M.A.) in Geography
Department
Geography
Language
English
Subjects
Sindicato de las Costureras 19 de Septiembre, Clothing workers -- Mexico -- Mexico City, Earthquakes -- Mexico -- Mexico City
DOI
10.15760/etd.2879
Physical Description
1 online resource (3, viii, 145 pages)
Abstract
The paper traces out the relationships between three sets of actors--workers, factory owners, and government--before, during and after the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, and places those relationships in the broader context of Mexico's political and economic development, as well as the spatial structure of Mexico City and the garment district. The paper concludes that although victims respond to the crisis by attempting to restore and repair previous social and physical conditions, as social theory predicts, disasters have different effects on different classes of people, who respond according to their needs, vulnerabilities, perceptions, values, and their socially prescribed powers. Where there is no consensus among social classes as to what the normal or desirable social system is or ought to be, conflict between sectors of the population, which was embedded in the social and spatial system, takes a new form as a result of new conditions caused by the disaster.
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Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/17352
Recommended Citation
McCrea, Margaret, "El Sindicato de las Costureras 19 de Septiembre: The Impact of the 1985 Mexico City Earthquake on Social Process" (1987). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 2885.
https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.2879
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