Frank Bardacke tells the thrilling, and ultimately tragic story, of one of the most transformative labor movements in American history. Much has been written about the United Farm Workers, but the depth of Bardacke's investigative reporting, the range of his historical knowledge, and the complexity of his story is unparalleled. Bardacke grounds his book in […]

Solidarity Transformed provides an account of how labor unions in Latin America are developing new strategies to defend the interests of the workers they represent in dynamic global and local contexts. Anner combines in-depth case studies of the auto and apparel industries in El Salvador, Honduras, Brazil, and Argentina with survey analysis. Altogether, he documents […]

Presented by Rodolfo García Zamora, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, México After 40 years of a long and rising emigration from Mexico to the United States, where from 800 thousand migrants in the 70's, the amount of mexicans increased to 12 million in 2006, and having as consequence an increasing input of remittances, which in 2007 […]