ABSTRACT
The cultural conditions following the economic crisis allowed for greater visibility of the precarious conditions of women in domestic, maquila, and sweatshop work. Latina workers are popularized in the television show “Devious Maids” and through Hector Tobar’s Barbarian Nurseries (2011) and the emergence of a migrant and border worker movement comprised mostly of women can be traced in the documentaries Maquilopolis (2006) and Made in LA (2007). These texts critique the cultural and economic conditions besetting Latina workers. And each offers their version of alternate possible futures for oppressed labor through coalitions and activist organizing.
