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Author | : Dale A. Hathaway |
Publisher | : South End Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : International labor activities |
ISBN | : 9780896086326 |
North American workers find their jobs more pressured and precarious but turn on the television and find pundits praising the glories of the global economy. Their counterparts south of the Rio Grande find themselves forced into the arms of global corporations that barely pay them their daily bread for work in dangerous plants that refuse to observe minimal safety or environmental standards. No wonder inequality is increasing in both countries. Although North Americans are told that Mexicans are stealing their jobs, workers can find "allies across the border." Like the U.S. labor organizers in the early part of the 20th century who created the C.I.O. in response to A.F.L. corruption, Mexico's F.A.T. (Frente Autentico del Trabajo or Authentic Workers' Front) is building a historic movement to create an alternative to Mexico's notoriously co-opted labor unions and collusion with government international capital. Allies Across the Border, the first book on F.A.T., analyzes this important group in the context of the globalization of capital and the necessary globalization of labor struggle. Dale Hathaway shows how F.A.T.'s dedication to worker education and self-management, union independence, and community development are key, not only in Mexico, but worldwide. Allies Across the Border includes detailed descriptions of F.A.T.'s growth from its liberation theology origins, through the Worker's Uprising and student movements of the late 60s, Mexico's debt crisis of the 70s and 80s, and F.A.T.'s work with women's groups, peasants, and consumer co-ops in the 90s. Hathaway's Allies Across the Border shows how F.A.T.'s dedication to worker's dignity offers lessons for North American workers who are fighting to keep corporations from pushing for greater exploitation of workers and environment in their home countries and worldwide. Dale Hathaway is Associate Professor of Political Science at Butler University in Indianapolis.
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Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2007 |
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ISBN | : 1437923038 |
This occasional paper is a concise overview of the history of the US Army's involvement along the Mexican border and offers a fundamental understanding of problems associated with such a mission. Furthermore, it demonstrates how the historic themes addressed disapproving public reaction, Mexican governmental instability, and insufficient US military personnel to effectively secure the expansive boundary are still prevalent today.
Author | : Christina Leza |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2019-11-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0816537003 |
The border region of the Sonoran Desert, which spans southern Arizona in the United States and northern Sonora, Mexico, has attracted national and international attention. But what is less discussed in national discourses is the impact of current border policies on the Native peoples of the region. There are twenty-six tribal nations recognized by the U.S. federal government in the southern border region and approximately eight groups of Indigenous peoples in the United States with historical ties to Mexico—the Yaqui, the O’odham, the Cocopah, the Kumeyaay, the Pai, the Apaches, the Tiwa (Tigua), and the Kickapoo. Divided Peoples addresses the impact border policies have on traditional lands and the peoples who live there—whether environmental degradation, border patrol harassment, or the disruption of traditional ceremonies. Anthropologist Christina Leza shows how such policies affect the traditional cultural survival of Indigenous peoples along the border. The author examines local interpretations and uses of international rights tools by Native activists, counterdiscourse on the U.S.-Mexico border, and challenges faced by Indigenous border activists when communicating their issues to a broader public. Through ethnographic research with grassroots Indigenous activists in the region, the author reveals several layers of division—the division of Indigenous peoples by the physical U.S.-Mexico border, the divisions that exist between Indigenous perspectives and mainstream U.S. perspectives regarding the border, and the traditionalist/nontraditionalist split among Indigenous nations within the United States. Divided Peoples asks us to consider the possibilities for challenging settler colonialism both in sociopolitical movements and in scholarship about Indigenous peoples and lands.
Author | : Dale A. Hathaway |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : International labor activities |
ISBN | : 9780896086326 |
Author | : Michael Dear |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2013-03-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199897980 |
Traces the border's long history of cultural interaction
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
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Canada and the US appear to be moving in a direction opposite to that of the rest of the world: we are tightening our common border! And yet Canada and the United States have never warred against each other as independent nations and profess - with real justification - to be the closest of allies. [...] Prior to 2001, Canada and the US recognized the increasing benefits to both countries of economic convergence in the form of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and NAFTA. [...] This Report recommends that, in light of the border improvements founded in the achievements of the Smart Border Accord, the trend towards economic convergence apparent prior to 2001 should now be extended to a form of increased security convergence in the post-9/11 era. [...] Critical to maintaining our region's competitive edge in the global economy is the availability of efficient infrastructure at the border as well as the serviceability of the transportation systems approaching the crossing points. [...] Fundamental to this initiative was the inclusion of the business community in the SPP process, with the creation of the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC).
Author | : Riley Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Borderlands |
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Author | : Dereje Feyissa |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1847010180 |
Borders offer opportunities as well as restrictions, and in the Horn of Africa they are used as economic, political, identity and status resources by borderland peoples. State borders are more than barriers. They structure social, economic and political spaces and as such provide opportunities as well as obstacles for the communities straddling both sides of the border. This book deals with the conduits and opportunities of state borders in the Horn of Africa, and investigates how the people living there exploit state borders through various strategies. Using a micro level perspective, the case studies, which includethe Horn and Eastern Africa, particularly the borders of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, focus on opportunities, highlight the agency of the borderlanders, and acknowledge the permeabilitybut consequentiality of the borders. DEREJE FEYISSA, Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany; MARKUS VIRGIL HOEHNE, Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany.
Author | : Edward Alden |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2008-09-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0061558397 |
Edward Alden presents a[n] ... investigation into the consequences of America's effort to secure its borders since 9/11. The result is a[n] ... assessment of the dangers faced by a U.S. that cuts itself off from the rest of the world--[Source unknown]
Author | : Susan E Jackson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2003-04-24 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1134202407 |
Across the world, companies are forming some of the most complex and exciting collaborations in the business world: cross-border alliances (CBAs). Yet while this offers multinational companies a way into the global marketplace, there is no guarantee of success.This book looks at the business and human resource issues arising in these complex collab