Author: Barbara Klauke
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 9783825851040
Category : Mexico
Languages : es
Pages : 310

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Author: Justin Akers Chacón
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608467767
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 423

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Radicals in the Barrio uncovers a long and rich history of political radicalism within the Mexican and Chicano working class in the United States. Chacón clearly and sympathetically documents the ways that migratory workers carried with them radical political ideologies, new organizational models, and shared class experience, as they crossed the border into southwestern barrios during the first three decades of the twentieth-century. Justin Akers Chacón previous work includes No One is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border (with Mike Davis).

Author: Kevin J. Middlebrook
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801851483
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 492

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Review: "First major comprehensive analysis in English of the post-revolutionary evolution of organized labor from 1920 to present. Argues that before labor plays a major role in Mexico's political and economic future, it must democratize internally; the State also must end direct manipulation of unions"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57. http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

Author: Debra D. Chapman
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 078648960X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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In the 1970s political and economic changes to the world order led to an emerging "globalization" credited with the ceding of state sovereignty to a "de facto world government" of transnational corporations and with the anti-globalism movement directed at countering it. Mexico, however, has maintained the salience of the national unit in the form of the state as a ruling apparatus and as the target of organized, non-state, political opposition. This study examines the transformation of Mexico's social and political organization from state corporatism to transnationalized corporatism, a form distinguished by the effect that International Financial Institutions and the World Trade Organization have on the state's relationship to the rest of society. By exploring how non-governmental organizations, political parties, unions and social movements (notably the Zapatistas) engage with the state under neoliberalism, this work significantly emphasizes the continued relevance of corporatist structures in an environment of electoral democratic reform.

Author: Maria Victoria Murillo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521785556
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Why labor unions resisted and submitted during the economic crises of the 1990s.

Author: Christopher Candland
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199241147
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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This volume features essays on labour relations at national, local, and workplace levels, as economic and political actors cope with the similar challenges associated with economic adjustment measures and the impact of 'globalization'.

Author: Terry M. Moe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107168880
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 347

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This book provides new evidence on teachers unions and their political activities across nations, and offers a foundation for a comparative politics of education.

Author: Enrique C. Ochoa
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 0742579824
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Winner of the 1998 Michael C. Meyer Manuscript Prize! Feeding Mexico: The Political Uses of Food since 1910 traces the Mexican government's intervention in the regulation, production, and distribution of food from the days of Cardenas to the recent privatization inspired by NAFTA. Professor Ochoa argues that the real goals of the government's food subsidies were political, driven by presidential desires to court urban labor. Many of the agencies and policies were hastily set in place in response to short-term political or economic crises. Since the goals were not to alleviate poverty, but to provide modest subsidies to urban consumers, the policies did not eliminate destitution or malnutrition in the country. Despite the minimal achievements of these interventionist policies, the State Food Agency provided a symbol of the state's concern for the workers. The elimination of the Agency in the 1990s prompted social protest and unrest. Feeding Mexico is the first study to examine the creation of networks to deliver food products, the relationship of these channels of distribution to the food crisis, and the role of the state in trying to ameliorate the problem. Based on exhaustive research of new archival material and richly documented with statistical tables, this book exposes the dynamics and outcome of social policy in twentieth-century Mexico.

Author: Maria Lorena Cook
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271043342
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377

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Author: Silvana Mandolessi
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000539474
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217

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This volume presents an interdisciplinary analysis of the practice of disappearances in Mexico, from the period of the so-called ‘dirty war’ to the current crisis of disappearances associated with the country’s ‘war on drugs’, during which more than 80,000 people have disappeared. The volume brings together contributions by distinguished scholars from Mexico, Argentina and Europe, who focus their chapters on four broad axes of enquiry. In Part I, chapters examine the phenomenon of disappearances in its historical and present-day forms, and the struggles for memory around the disappeared in Mexico with reference to Argentina. Part II addresses the political dimensions of disappearances, focusing on the specificities that this practice acquires in the context of the counterinsurgency struggle of the 1970s and the so-called ‘war on drugs’. The third section situates the issue within the framework of human rights law by examining the conceptual and legal aspects of disappearances. The final chapters explore the social movement of the relatives of the disappeared, showing how their search for disappeared loved ones involves bodily and affective experiences as well as knowledge production. The volume thus aims to further our understanding of the crisis of disappearances in Mexico without, however, losing sight of the historic origins of the phenomenon.