Government Workers in Puerto Rico: A Case Study

Government Workers in Puerto Rico: A Case Study

The largest employer in Puerto Rico today is the Government. Public service workers presently total 285,000 or roughly 26% of ...
Downward Mobility: Mexican Workers After NAFTA

Downward Mobility: Mexican Workers After NAFTA

The Mexican government doesn't really care about us," says Jesds Herndndez, a Mexican migrant worker in Tijuana. "We are routine- ...
Reviews

Reviews

The Myth of the Male Breadwinner: Women and Industrialization in the Caribbean by Helen I. Safa, Westview Press, 1995, 208 ...
The Growing Force of Latino Labor

The Growing Force of Latino Labor

Thirty years ago Cesar Chavez and his United Farm Workers union (UFW) brought new life to an otherwise quiescent labor ...
Letters

Letters

U.S. Cuba Policy About a year ago, one of your contributors took me to task for being ignorant of how ...
Anniversary Essay: Regis Debray on Che Guevara

Anniversary Essay: Regis Debray on Che Guevara

We are approaching the 30th anniver- sary of the October 1967 death of Ernesto "Che" Guevara in Bolivia-an event one ...
Portrait of an Organizer: Edgar deJesus

Portrait of an Organizer: Edgar deJesus

When Edgar deJesus was growing up in East Harlem in the late 1960s, he was surrounded by the sights and ...
ON THE LINE: LATINO'S ON LABOR'S CUTTING EDGE

ON THE LINE: LATINO’S ON LABOR’S CUTTING EDGE

While it's too early to talk about a new movement, it's certainly encouraging ful municipal unions, to the AFL-CIO itself, ...
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