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The USMCA and Third Generation Labor Accords: From Prior Experiences in Latin America to the Foreseeable Future for Mexican Industrial Relations
Get PDFEn Norteamérica existe un nuevo marco normativo dirigido a replantear los términos de inter-cambio comercial entre Canadá, México y Estados Unidos, y a incidir en sus relaciones labora-les. El estudio se dirige a evaluar las condiciones en que se está produciendo el tránsito hacia un nuevo modelo laboral en México, partiendo de la experiencia previa y seis acuerdos comerciales de Estados Unidos con once países de América Latina y el Caribe. La evidencia reunida muestra que los cambios hasta ahora producidos son limitados y focalizados en industrias estratégicas transnacionales como la automotriz. Se postula entonces que sólo ocurrirá una transformación de las relaciones laborales si y sólo si los cambios legislativos son respaldados y procesados por los diferentes stakeholders involucrados -esto es, una orquestación desde abajo que pueda extenderse y ser respaldada por la sociedad civil.IA new normative framework exists in North America aimed at reformulating trade among Canada, Mexico, and the United States and at impacting labor relations. This study evaluates the conditions of the transition toward a new labor model in Mexico, starting from the prior experience and six trade agreements between the United States and eleven countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. The evidence gathered shows that, until now, the changes are limited and focused on strategic transnational industries like the auto industry. The authors argue, then, that labor relations will change if, and only if, legislative changes are backed up and processed by the different stakeholders, that is, an arrangement from below that can spread and be backed up by civil society.En la región de Norteamérica existe un nuevo marco normativo dirigido a replantear los términos de flujos comerciales y de inversión entre Canadá, México y Estados Unidos, y a incidir en sus relaciones laborales. Este último país presionó por un tratado comercial que frenara la fuga de empleos e inversiones tras los salarios bajos de México. El nuevo tratado incrementó la regla de contenido regional en industrias estratégicas como la automotriz, e introdujo una regla de contenido laboral junto con un amplio capitulado relativo a los derechos de los trabajadores con dedicatoria para México y la prohibición expresa de minar los derechos laborales para atraer inversiones. Más aún, los arreglos laborales sancionados en el Tratado México, Estados Unidos y Canadá (T-MEC) han conformado el cuerpo laboral más comprensivo y vinculante promovido por Estados Unidos hasta hoy; constituyen, por tanto, la tercera generación de arreglos laborales introducida por ese país como prerrequisito para la firma de un tratado (p. 10)
Inflation and Food in Twenty-first-Century Mexico
Get PDFThe Covid-19 pandemic is considered the most widespread
and devastating in recent history, and its economic and social impact, together with the world economic crisis that emerged in late 2019, disrupted almost all aspects of life. In this context, we should underline that agricultural and livestock resources have been especially affected throughout the world, this, in turn, has compromised food production. P. 7
San Antonio From Here and there, the Original and the Reimagined
Get PDFIn the Old Continent, we also find Leding/Leidingen, a town divided between France and Germany. Its 144 inhabitants have changed nationality seven times and their countries have waged war against each other on more than one occasion, but a single street divides their community, a street they cross constantly without noticing. The inhabitants are all European and can go about their daily lives ignoring the border until bureaucratic paperwork that they must do with different postal codes and laws remind them that their town belongs to two distinct nations. In the early twentieth century, the American Rio Grande Land and Irrigation Company dug a canal to distribute water that it had diverted from the Rio Grande. The Río Rico community that was on the U.S. side suddenly became part of Tamaulipas state in Mexico. As with other towns on the Mexico/U.S. border during Prohibition, Río Rico became a miniLas Vegas, with casinos and saloons on the Mexican side frequented by U.S. Americans (p. 39)
The Hijuelas Books: Digitizing Indigenous Archives in Mexico
Get PDFWith two Mexican colleagues and a former PhD student now working in Texas’s General Land Office, I devised a project to digitize the hijuelas, given their exceptional historical importance and fragile, bug-infested condition. Thanks to a British Library Endangered Archives Programme (EAP) grant, the digitized books ––all 95,000 images–– have just been uploaded to the EAP website, where they can be freely accessed.2 We hope they will be sought not just by historians but by the diaspora of michoacanos who are interested in exploring their roots and by members of Michoacán’s indigenous communities, which in recent years have begun to reassert an autonomous juridical identity in line with their historic “usages and customs” (usos y costumbres). There they will hear, as in no other source, nineteenth- and early twentieth-century indigenous voices talking (sometimes fighting) over who, what, and where the pueblo was
Industrias culturales norteamericanas en la era digital. Review
No full textIndustrias culturales norteamericanas en la era digital (North American Cultural Industries in the Digital Age), edited by Alejandro Mercado Celis and Santiago Battezzati, explores the attempts in North American cultural and creative spheres to differentiate the traditional (film and publishing) from the non-traditional (advertising, apps, and social media). The book emphasizes that both produce texts and require the recognition of the prevailing patterns of production and consumption in Mexico, the United States, and Canada, which have been profoundly transformed by the absorption of the paradigm of digital technologies and virtual reality and have brought with them new economic spaces with a perspective that underlines the multidimensionality of transformations, as well as their quantitative and qualitative impacts. pp. 8
Pido la palabra: A Texas Prison Literature Project for Social Justice and the Literary Imagination
Get PDFIn order to provide an education that includes selfexpression through language, literature, and the arts to Spanish-speaking incarcerated individuals in Texas, the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies in partnership with the Nettie Lee Benson Collection (Llilas Benson), and the Texas Prison Education Initiative (tpei), at the University of Texas at Austin, developed a project sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.9 It consists of a higher learning Spanish, bilingual creative writing program, entitled Pido la Palabra, which will be implemented in two Texas prisons. p.1
“The Alamo” of Myth, Propaganda, And Utilitarian Mediatization The Construction/Consecration of A Unilateral, Disorted Memory
No full textThe myth of “The Alamo” as the great epic battle in the history of the United States —not only of Texas— has been consolidated by all manner of means: paintings, engravings, comics (like Texas History Movies), diverse memorabilia (plates, knives “of the era,” press articles, handguns , etc.), films, television series, documentaries, and books (with contradictory perspectives and based on a good number of cases). The most important may have been the construction of the physical infrastructure that has become a space of civic worship, ideal for the construction of citizenship, to forge feelings of identity and belonging, and, ominously, for the systematic exclusion of the “others” (Native Americans, Afro-descendants, and Mexicans), who also belong to this history that white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, racists and supremacists have appropriated for themselves and exploited as “their legacy” to systematically manipulate and utilize as a powerful ideological weapon, giving rise to the racism, marginalization, and demonization of the “others” from 1836 until today, based on distortion (p. 31)