Justice for All: The Struggle for Worker Rights in Mexico

Compa, Lance A.

Justice for All: The Struggle for Worker Rights in Mexico

Abstract

[Excerpt] The Solidarity Center is launching a new series, Justice for All: The Struggle for Worker Rights. This series follows the May 2003 publication of the Solidarity Center’s groundbreaking Justice for All: A Guide to Worker Rights in the Global Economy. Through powerful first-person narratives, the reports thoroughly examine worker rights, country by country, in today’s global economy. This first report, by renowned worker rights researcher Lance Compa, takes a hard look at Mexico’s century-long fight for independent, democratic trade unions and social justice. Compa puts Mexico’s labor law and practice to the test against international worker rights standards reflected in International Labor Organization conventions and the ILO’s 1998 Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work.

Date Issued

2003-01-01

Keywords

worker rights; Mexico; ILO; Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work; social justice; labor movement

Types

article