Mexican Lives

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In the wake of the peso's collapse, the NAFTA accord with the USA, political assasinations and fraud in national elections, this book provides a candid account of a nation - told through the stories of ordinary men and women in a time of economic and political transformation. Speaking from their homes and workplaces, it portrays their views on subjects ranging from pollution, the political elite, corruption and the migrant experience in the United States. They include a small subsistence farmer eager to break into the more profitable gourmet fruit and vegetable export market, a wealthy family pondering how best to position their company to profit from NAFTA, and a former housewife turned union organizer.

Author Bio

Judith Adler Hellman is a professor of social and political science at York University, Toronto. She is the author of Mexican Lives and The World of Mexican Migrants: The Rock and the Hard Place, both published by The New Press, as well as Mexico in Crisis and Journeys Among Women: Feminism in Five Italian Cities. Hellmans fieldwork and writing on Mexico date back to the 1960s, when she first interviewed peasants in the countryside and social movement activists in the cities. She lives in Toronto, Canada.