
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
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
Last years 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 ...

Puerto Rican Workers Strike Back
Under the slogan of "Puerto Rico Is Not For Sale," over 500,000 Puerto Rican workersone half of the island's labor ...

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
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
Growth and price stability have returned to Latin America, but at a staggering social cost. Through the first half of ...