Free Trade: Informal Economies at the U.S.-Mexican Border
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In the aspiring global cities of Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, people generate income and develop their housing informally on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. Staudt analyzes women and men in low-and middle-income neighborhoods in the core and in the old and new peripheries of two cities that straddle an international border.
Residents counter national and international influences to build shelter and incomes, albeit meager. But the political machinery of both the U.S. and Mexico constrains the ability of these quintessential free traders to build political communities and organize around self-sufficient work and housing in visible ways.
Experiences at the border, along a central gateway for capital, job, and labor movements, offer insights to readers as the globalized economy spreads and engulfs the heartlands of both the U.S. and Mexico. People's everyday victories in countering petty regulations can counter or feed the grand global hegemonies.
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How petty regulations feed grand global hegemonies that cheapen labor
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Free Trade: Informal Economies at the U.S.-Mexican Border
Free Trade: Informal Economies at the U.S.-Mexican Border,Kathleen A. Staudt,Temple University Press,1566395682,Business & Economics,Business/Economics,Economics - General,Industries,Industries - General,Informal sector (Economics),International Relations - General,Mexican-American Border Region,Mexico, North,Politics - Current Events,Politics / Current Events,Texas,Development economics,Labour economics,Mexico,USA,Work & labour
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