Free Trade Zones (FTZs) are legally defined areas provided and underwritten by governments to facilitate the exploitation of FTL within their jurisdictions. Free trade zones in North America are undermining US and Canadian transportation workers across the continent.
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Free Trade Labor — Comment
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009The impact of NAFTA on income equality across North America offers a good starting point for understanding the consequences of free trade labor on working people.
The NAFTA Corridors — Comment
Monday, February 2nd, 2009Offshoring U.S. Transportation Jobs to Mexico
Transient Servitude — Comment
Monday, February 2nd, 2009The U.S. Guest Worker Program for Exploiting Mexican and Central American Workers
The Fight of Our Lives — Comment
Monday, February 2nd, 2009“We are in the fight of our lives. The hostile onslaught against U.S. labor that was launched after the Second World War and…”
How Globalization Works — Comment
Monday, February 2nd, 2009Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Texas (TMMTX) — A Case Study
Combating Globalization — Comment
Monday, February 2nd, 2009“Modern economic class struggle–the unremitting fight over the distribution of the wealth created by social production…”
Transient Servitude Update: The Continuing Efforts to Establish a US Guest Worker Program — Comment
Thursday, July 8th, 2010Since the end of the 20th century, the neoliberal sector of US capitalism has relentlessly pursued the establishment of a national guest worker program to import cheap labor from the Global South [especially Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean]. The failure of the US Congress to implement comprehensive immigration reform that includes provisions for a guest worker program has not derailed capital’s initiative. The purpose of Transient Servitude Update is to bring Transient Servitude: The US Guest Worker Program for Exploiting Mexican and Central American Workers (Monthly Review, January 2007) up to date by presenting timely analysis of the important developments of this critical issue that will shape the future of all labor in the 21st century.
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