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  • Transforming the Latin American Automobile Industry

    Union, Workers and the Politics of Restructuring

    This study looks at union responses to the changes in the Latin American car industry in the last 15 years. It considers the impact of the shift towards export production and regional integration, and the effect of political changes on union reponses. ... Read more

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  • Reshaping the North American Automobile Industry

    Restructuring, Corporatism and Union Democracy in Mexico

    by John P. Tuman ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
    This work examines the responses of unions and workers to regional integration and restructuring in the automobile industry in North and Central America. The focus is on the automobile industry in Mexico, which, because of its size and importance, is viewed as a strategic sector of the Mexican economy and was the focal point of talks between the US, Canada and Mexico during negotiations on NAFTA. ... Read more

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  • Latinos in Nevada

    A Political, Economic, and Social Profile

    Series series Migration, Demography, & Environmental Change: Global Challenges
    Throughout history, the Latinx population has contributed substantially to Nevada’s mining, railroad, farming, ranching, and tourism industries. Latinos in Nevada provides a comprehensive analysis of this fastest-growing and diverse ethnic group, exploring the impact of the Hispanic/Latinx population on the Silver State in the past, present, and future.This extensive study by a distinguished and ... Read more

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    Widening global inequalities make it difficult for parents in developing nations to provide for their children, and both mothers and fathers often find that migration in search of higher wages is their only hope. Their dreams are straightforward: with more money, they can improve their children's lives. But the reality of their experiences is often harsh, and structural barriers—particularly those ... Read more

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  • Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados

    Class and Culture on the South Texas Border

    This updated edition of the classic study examines life on the Texas-Mexico border, including the effects of NAFTA, drug violence, and immigration crises.Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados offers an authoritative portrait of the people of the South Texas/Northern Mexico borderlands. First published in 1999, the book is now extensively revised and updated to cover developments since 2000, ... Read more

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  • Latino America

    How America's Most Dynamic Population is Poised to Transform the Politics of the Nation

    Sometime in April 2014, somewhere in a hospital in California, a Latino child tipped the demographic scales as Latinos displaced non-Hispanic whites as the largest racial/ethnic group in the state. So, one-hundred-sixty-six years after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo brought the Mexican province of Alta California into the United States, Latinos once again became the largest population in the ... Read more

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  • Democracy and the Left

    Social Policy and Inequality in Latin America

    Although inequality in Latin America ranks among the worst in the world, it has notably declined over the last decade, offset by improvements in health care and education, enhanced programs for social assistance, and increases in the minimum wage.In Democracy and the Left, Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens argue that the resurgence of democracy in Latin America is key to this change. In addition ... Read more

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  • Residential Segregation Patterns of Latinos in the United States, 1990-2000

    Series series Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues
    Historically, residential segregation of Latinos has generally been seen as a result of immigration and the process of self-segregation into ethnic enclaves. The only theoretical exception to ethnic enclave Latino segregation has been the structural inequality related to Latinos that have a high degree of African ancestry. This study of the 331 metropolitan area in the United States between 1990 ... Read more

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  • Medicine and Public Health at the End of Empire

    The recent financial meltdown has brought notable changes to the global practice of health care changes that have often escaped the American news media. Although Western managed-care corporations previously had strengthened their influence abroad, now many countries are considering new approaches to health care for their citizens.The untold story of how corporations have influenced global health ... Read more

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  • Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America

    Latin American women’s movements played important roles in the democratic transitions in South America during the 1980s and in Central America during the 1990s. However, very little has been written on what has become of these movements and their agendas since the return to democracy. This timely collection examines how women’s movements have responded to the dramatic political, economic, and ... Read more

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  • NGOs, Political Protest, and Civil Society

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