Abstract
In chapter five, we examine business, commerce, and labor at the border. Here too, we find official machinery and institutions that facilitate business and commercial flows. Large-scale capital investments and the possibility of expanded market niches and profits facilitate this movement. The same cannot be said for labor and labor unions, mostly steeped in national rather than cross-national solidarities. Competition also underlies these relationships, both among business and labor.
“Buy American!”
—nationalist slogan, appropriating the word American for the United States rather than the geographic Americas
We are all tied up in the same emerging political and economic system. We [in the U.S.] cannot understand that system without understanding how it works in Mexico.
—Dale Hathaway, author
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Endnotes
Robert Reich, The Work of Nations (NY: Vintage, 1992).
Dale Story, Industry, the State, and Public Policy in Mexico (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986).
Staudt 1998, chapter 3, especially. Also see selections in Ward and Rodríguez, eds. on the PAN. Peter Ward and Victoria Rodriguez, co-eds, Opposition Government in Mexico (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995).
Saul Landau and Sonia Angulo, Maquila: A Tale of Two Mexicos (video). (Pomona, CA: College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences MediaVision, California State Polytechnic University, 2000).
Landau and Angulo, 2000. For Texas-Mexico figures see Victoria Rodriguez and Peter Ward Reaching Across the Border: Intergovernmental Relations between Texas and Mexico (Austin, Texas: LBJ School of Public Affairs: University of Texas, 1999), 6.
World Bank, World Development Report: Knowledge for Development. (Washington, D.C./NY: World Bank/Oxford University Press, 1999). The World Development Report (Washington, D.C.: World Bank 1983) was the major initial document to cogently argue and develop this theme.
Francisco Lara, “Transboundary Networks for Environmental Management in the San Diego-Tijuana Border Region,” in L.A. Herzog, ed., Shared Space: Rethinking the U.S. Mexico Border Environment (La Jolla, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 2000), pp. 155–81.
John Sharp, Bordering the Future: Challenge and Opportunity in the Texas Border Region (Austin: Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, 1998).
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Staudt, K., Coronado, I. (2002). Cross-Border Trade: An Institutional Model for Labor Unions and NGOs?. In: Fronteras No Más. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-11546-1_5
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