Mexican Women in American Factories Free Trade and Exploitation on the Border

Name: Mexican Women in American Factories Free Trade and Exploitation on the Border
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ISBN: 9780292756847

ISBN-10: 0292756844

ISBN-13: 9780292756847

Edition: 2012

Authors: Carolyn Tuttle

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Prior to the millennium, economists and policy makers argued that free trade between the United States and Mexico would benefit both Americans and Mexicans. They believed that NAFTA would be a “win-win” proposition that would offer U.S. companies new markets for their products and Mexicans the hope of living in a more developed country with the modern conveniences of wealthier nations. Blending rigorous economic and statistical analysis with concern for the people affected, Mexican Women in American Factories offers the first assessment of whether NAFTA has fulfilled these expectations by examining its socioeconomic impact on workers in a Mexican border town.Carolyn Tuttle led a group that…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 11/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 253
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Carolyn Tuttle is Betty Jane Schultz Hollender Professor of Economics at Lake Forest College, where she is currently Chair of the Latin American Studies Department and Director of the Border Studies Program. She also authored Hard at Work in Factories and Mines: The Economics of Child Labor in Great Britain.