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 ...
Critical Mass: Latino Labor and Politics in California
Last year’s massive immigrant rights marches heralded the emergence of a new civil rights movement in the United States. But ...
Unions and New Immigrants
Most U.S. labor unions agree on what to do about the some 12 million undocumented immigrants now living in the ...
Mexico: Year Zero
For Felipe Calderón, the second president of Mexico to come from the conservative National Action Party, this is year zero ...
The Decline of the Steady Job in Latin America
Growth and price stability have returned to Latin America, but at a staggering social cost. Through the first half of ...
Murder at the Margins of the World
IN THE AMAZON, WHEN TREES FALL PEO- ple die. Sometimes they die because their livelihood is destroyed. Other times because ...
The Escalating Struggles Over Mexico’s Labor Law
Labor law reform has become a high- profile issue in Mexico. Newspaper columnists and television pundits debate it, politicians 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 ...
