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The children of NAFTA : labor wars on the U.S./Mexico border / David Bacon.
- Title
- The children of NAFTA : labor wars on the U.S./Mexico border / David Bacon.
- Author
- Bacon, David, 1948-
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HD8081.M6 B33 2004 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Bacon, David,
- Description
- 348 p., [24] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Based on firsthand accounts, this book investigates the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement on those who work along the U.S./Mexico border producing food, televisions, computer equipment, plumbing supplies, clothing, and other goods that are the material foundation of our lives. Journalist David Bacon paints a portrait of poverty, repression, and struggle, offering a devastating critique of NAFTA in the most in-depth examination of border workers published to date." "This book finds that, despite the promises of its backers, NAFTA has locked in a harsh neoliberal economic policy that has swept away laws and protections established by Mexican workers over many decades. More than a showcase for NAFTA's victims, The Children of NAFTA traces the emergence of a new social consciousness, telling how workers in Mexico, the U.S., and Canada are now beginning to join together in a powerful new strategy of cross-border organizing as they fight for economic and social justice."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Mexican Americans > Employment
- Quality of work life > Mexican-American Border Region
- North American Free Trade Agreement (1992 December 17)
- Mexican-American Border Region > Social conditions
- Migrant labor > Mexican-American Border Region
- Mexican-American Border Region > Economic conditions
- Labor movement > Mexican-American Border Region
- Foreign workers, Mexican > United States
- ISBN
- 0520237781 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2003015900
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries