Kissed by the Devil: A Tale of Theft and Rescue
This "From the Archive" article originally appeared in Vol. 36, No. 2, Sept.-Oct, 2002. Cuernavaca, Saturday, June 13, 1998: At ...
Mexico: The State Against the Working Class
Subte workers demonstrate in Buenos Aires in August 2012. Photo by Rene Rojas. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, president of ...
The State Against the Electricians: A War of Extinction
A contingent of marchers in support of Mexican Unions. Photo by David Bacon. In October 2009, with Mexico facing severe ...
The State Against the Miners: Resistance and Solidarity
Mexico’s miners have long fought for higher wages, better working conditions, and for the right to unionize independently. At every ...
Elements of the New Labor Law
The reformed labor law weakens workers’ bargaining power in the following ways: Permits temporary and seasonal employment. Permits pay by ...
Fighting for Independent Unions in the Maquilas
Most of the unions that exist in Mexico’s maquila sector—the duty-free assembly plants that import raw materials and intermediate ...
Energy, Integration, and Colonialism
A key process in the integration of the Mexican and U.S. economies has long been the privatization of energy, a ...
