Desolation: Mexican Campesinos and Agriculture in the 21st Century

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 ...
Mexico: Year Zero

Mexico: Year Zero

For Felipe Calderón, the second president of Mexico to come from the conservative National Action Party, this is year zero ...
Critical Mass: Latino Labor and Politics in California

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

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 ...
Puerto Rican Workers Strike Back

Puerto Rican Workers Strike Back

Under the slogan of "Puerto Rico Is Not For Sale," over 500,000 Puerto Rican workers––one half of the island's labor ...
Cracks in PRI Unionism

Cracks in PRI Unionism

For over half a century, Mexico's labor movement Shas been a model of open subordination to the government and the ...
The Abascal Plan: Codifying Employer Control

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 ...
The Decline of the Steady Job in Latin America

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 ...
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