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The maquiladora reader : cross-border organizing since NAFTA

Title: The maquiladora reader : cross-border organizing since NAFTA / edited by Rachael Kamel and Anya Hoffman.
Publication: Philadelphia, PA : American Friends Service Committee, 1999.

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Description

vii, 131 p.; 28 cm.

Subject

Offshore assembly industry > Mexico
Offshore assembly industry > Employees > Labor unions > Mexico
Mexico > Social conditions > 1970-

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-129).

Contents

The maquiladora industry : an overview. In the maquila kingdom ; The cardboard door / by Arturo Cano -- Glimpsing the future / by Rick Ufford-Chase -- Statistical profile of the maquiladora industry -- Women in the maquiladoras. Women on the border : needs and opportunities -- Death comes to the maquilas : a border story / by Debbie Nathan -- No guarantees : sex discrimination in Mexico's maquiladora sector / By Human Rights Watch -- May Day on the border / by David Bacon -- For Mexican women, sexism is a daily battle / by Nora Lockwood Tooher -- Health and environmental issues. "Someone has to stop this" : testimony of an Autotrim worker in Matamoros -- Free trade : the politics of toxic waste / by Mary E. Kelly -- Workers' health is on the line : occupational health and safety in the maquiladoras / by George Kourous -- Hazardous waste management on the border : problems with practices and oversight continue / by Cyrus Reed -- Cross-border initiatives. The emergence of cross-border labor solidarity / by Robin Alexander and Peter Gilmore -- Reaching across the Rio / by Mary E. Tong -- Double standards : notes for a border screenplay / by Debbie Nathan -- NAO findings on working conditions at Han Young plant -- Maquiladora standards of conduct -- A border partnership : the CFO and the AFSC. Taking flight / by Ricardo Hernández -- We are not machines / by María Guadalupe Torres -- Building fairness in the maquiladoras / by Phoebe McKinney -- NAFTA, and beyond. NAFTA : trinational fiasco / by Sarah Anderson, John Cavanagh and David Ranney -- Falling peso, falling lifestyle / by Carlos Guerra -- Belo Horizonte Declaration : building a hemispheric social alliance to confront free trade -- Alternatives for the Americas : building a peoples' hemispheric agreement : discussion draft 2, November 1998 -- Resource directory.

Call Number

JFF 01-356

ISBN

0910082359

OCLC

42267068

Title

The maquiladora reader : cross-border organizing since NAFTA / edited by Rachael Kamel and Anya Hoffman.

Imprint

Philadelphia, PA : American Friends Service Committee, 1999.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-129).

Added Author

Kamel, Rachael.

Hoffman, Anya.

American Friends Service Committee.

Research Call Number

JFF 01-356

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