The Workforce of the 1990s
Over the past decade and a half, the structure of Mexican employment has undergone deep changes. The production-based workforce-the source ...
Salinas’ Failed War on Poverty
The terrain on which the indigenous struggle has been cultivated is nothing more complex than the extreme poverty which Salinas' ...
The Decline of the Decent Job
For the past two decades, and especially since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect in 1994, ...
Stories from the Borderlands
I. Industria Fronteriza Tijuana’s oldest maquiladora closed last year. It didn’t fall victim to the dreaded Chinese competition, confounding a ...
Making Fantasies Real: Producing Women and Men on the Maquila Shop Floor
In the early 1990s, I went to Mexico's northern border to study the role of gender in global production.[1] In ...
Organizing in the Maquilas
NEARLY HALF-A-MILLION MEXICANS ARE currently employed in maquiladoras-the 1,500 in- bond assembly plants clustered along Mexico's northern border. These overwhelmingly ...
Testing NAFTA’s Labor Side Agreement
Norberto Cordoba sacrificed his job, trying to end condi- tions in his factory so dan- gerous that he feared the ...
Why the Recovery is Not a Recovery
Over the last two years, Mexicans have been caught in an economic crisis of appalling pro- portions. The peso devaluation ...
