Desolation: Mexican Campesinos and Agriculture in the 21st Century
The European Union has steadfastly opposed agricultural trade liberalization, as proposed by the United States, with arguments in favor of ...
Labor Mercosur
The Southern Common Market (Mercosur in Spanish, Mercosul in Portuguese)-a regional trade bloc comprised of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay-has ...
Child Workers of the Americas
By 6:00 a.m. in the market of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, horses are hauling carts loaded with pineapples, bananas and ...
Puerto Rican Workers Strike Back
Under the slogan of "Puerto Rico Is Not For Sale," over 500,000 Puerto Rican workersone half of the island's labor ...
Fish and Flexibility: Working in the New Chile
Chiles economy has been transformed over the three decades that have elapsed since the 1973 coup that imposed a bloody ...
The Abascal Plan: Codifying Employer Control
What would the law do exactly? While written in apparently innocuous language, it would create a series of impediments to ...
Origins of Mexico’s Labor Law Reform
During the seven long decades of the Institutional Revolutionary Partys (PRI) rule, unions formed an important part of the partys ...
Why Immigration?
Years of work and ardous debate went into the writing of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, a vast ...
