Author: Judith A. Teichman
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822974762
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Since 1983, Mexico has undergone a rapid and thorough economic restructuring program, with privatization at the core. The government has divested itself of hundreds of public companies, increasing the role of private capital, both domestic and foreign. Supporters have argued that divestiture would have positive implications for Mexican democracy, but Judith A. Teichman concludes that political and economic power in Mexico is more concentrated and exclusionary than ever. She uses extensive field research, including interviews with top political and business leaders to describe and analyze the process by which the Mexican state has reformed its mammoth public enterprise sector.
Author: Myrna I. Santiago
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Category : Oil industries
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 936
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Author: Norman Caulfield
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Almost eighty years before the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Ricardo Flores Magón--revolutionary, anarchist, labor organizer and expatriate nationalist--challenged the prevailing social order of both Mexico and the United States. Magón predicted that if Mexican workers failed to organize and shake off the yoke of capitalism, the nation would soon be dominated by foreign economic interests. And American workers, he warned, would find their firms and factories employing low-wage laborers in Mexico. Magón's message: "Mexico for Mexicans." Organized labor, however, would never gain a strong foothold in Mexico. Although the Constitution of 1917 guaranteed the right of workers to organize and strike, government restrictions, a historically unstable economy and meddling by the American interests (including the IWW and the AFL), combined to limit the effectiveness of Mexican unions. "Mexico for Mexicans," or working-class nationalism, was and is little more than rhetoric. In Mexican Workers and the State, historian Norman Caulfield traces the evolution of organized labor from its radical roots during the Mexican Revolution to its present status as a mere pawn in the game of Mexican politics. The implementation of NAFTA in 1993 has been beneficial to some (almost one million low-wage workers are employed in the maquila industries south of the border), but it has also aggravated the question of workers' rights. Outside industries continue to play an unsettling role in the vacillating Mexican economy. Ricardo Flores Magón's 1914 prediction was right. Mexico has become a haven for foreign interests. Material on which Mexican Workers and the State is based has won the Harvey Johnson Award from the Southwestern Council of Latin American Studies.
Author: Ruth Adler
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Category : Petroleum industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Author: Martin P. Catherwood Library
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Category : Industrial relations
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Category : Labor market
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Author: Benson Latin American Collection
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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Author: Pablo González Casanova
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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