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Mask of Democracy
Labor Suppression in Mexico Today
Dan La Botz
Pages: 224ISBN: 0-89608-437-X
Format: paper
Release Date: 1992-01-01
This book is also available in cloth
Incorporating scores of interviews with Mexican rank-and-file workers, labor union officials, women's organizations, lawyers, and human rights activists, La Botz illustrates the history of Mexican workers and offers insights into their post-NAFTA prospects. Includes a discussion of the border plants called maquiladoras, histories of recent rank and file worker insurgencies, and a critique of the Bush administration's NAFTA.
Praise
“The
heart of the book is its blow-by-blow accounts of major union battles, documented
largely by Mexican newspaper reports and the author’s own extensive interviews
of key players.”
—New Politics
“[T]he
author includes many vivid interviews with workers themselves and data on
some lesser known labor management-government conflicts.”
—Library Journal
“Using
scores of interviews with Mexican workers, labor officials, women’s organizers,
lawyers, and human rights activists, the author graphically illustrates the
precarious state of the Mexican economy in the 1990s.”
—Bookpaper
“Mask
of Democracy includes chapters on labor rights and law, maquiladoras,
and private industry and labor rights. It is an important and timely book.”
—Connections to the
Americas
“Mask
of Democracy...expose[s] the hypocrisy of democratic pretensions by those
engaged in policy formulation in both Mexico and the United States.”
—Small Press