Wright investigates women inside global factories and surrounding cities in northern Mexico and in southern China in the years 1991-2003. In her analysis she uses Marxism, poststructuralist feminism and postcolonial theory. Her claim is that the disposable third world woman is a myth and that this myth is instrumental in the continuation of a constant flow of global capital. She examines the origins of this myth and the ways in which third world women are challenging it.