Mask of Democracy: Labor Suppression in Mexico Today

by Dan La Botz

"As the White House heralds a free trade zone from the northern coast of Canada to the southern tip of Mexico, across the North American continent we ask ourselves what this means for our lives. Will the oppressive working and living conditions of Mexican labor improve or will the conditions of U.S. and Canadian people further deteriorate? The prospects are not encouraging. Using scores of interviews with Mexican rank and file workers, labor officials, women's organizers, lawyers, and human rights activists, Dan La Botz illustrates the precarious position of workers in the Mexican economy of the 1990s. This timely book 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 North American Free Trade Agreement."

224 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1992

About the author

Daniel H. La Botz is a prominent American labor union activist, academic, journalist, and author. He was a co-founder of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) and has written extensively on worker rights in the United States and Mexico. He is a member of the socialist organization Solidarity.

Reviews

[Natalie]

tried reading it, got bored, didn't finish.