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Trade Agreements

Section H

This section includes materials on the role of multinational corporations as well as regional trade agreements.

Bankcheck Quarterly
California: International Rivers Network
Sept 1993 – No. 17 June 1997
and The Polarization of Mexican Society: A grassroots view of World Bank economic adjustment
Policies. Prep by Carlos A Heredia and Mary E Purcell
NGO Working Group on the World Bank
Washington: The Development Group for Alternative Policies, 1994

CCPA Monitor
Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Vol. 8 No. 3 July/Aug 2001 – Vol. 21 No. 9 March 2015, July-Aug 2015
and
Lessons from NAFTA: The high cost of “Free Trade”
Eds. Karen Hansen-Kuhn and Steve Hellinger, CCPA, 2003

Center Focus
Washington: Center of Concern
Issue 47 Jan 1982 – Issue 137 Sept 1997
and
Social Analysis: Linking faith and justice
Joe Holland and Peter Henriot
Washington: Center of Concern, 1980

Center of Concern. 1995 Catalog of Resources

CJM Newsletter – Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras
Vol. 3 No. 2 July 1993 – Vol 6 No. 3-4 Fall-Winter 1996
Annual Report 1973, 1974

A Canadian Success Story? Gilden activewear: T-shirts, free trade and worker rights
Texas: The Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras

The Corporate Examiner
New York: Corporate Information Center
Vol. 5 No. 8/9 – Vol. 18 No. 8/9 1990, Vol. 26 No. 6-8 May 1998

ILET (Instituto Latinoamericano de Estudios Transnacionales)
Box of various publications
Including
- Border conflicts, democratic stability and regional political cooperation, Jan. 1985
- Periodismo independiente alternativo en Chile: Aportes a la democracia y perspectivas al futuro
by Fernando Reyes Matta 28 Feb – 1 Mar 1985
- Alternative independent journalism in Chile: Contributions to democracy and perspectives for the future by Fernando Reyes Matta 28 Feb – 1 Mar 1985
- Study of the independent journalistic practices under authoritarian regimes in the South Cone
by Fernando Reyes Matta Jan 1985 Dec 1986
- Some notes on the role of communication in democratic stability. A South American perspective
by Juan Somavia 27 Aug – 1 Sept 1984
- La Organización industrial de la TV y el desarrollo de la capacidad nacional de comunicar en América
Latina. Estudios de casos: Argentina, Chile y México by Diego Portales C Oct 1984
- Proyecto de documentación Altercom. Conclusiones preliminares de los resultados. Mayo 1984
- División de comunicación y desarrollo. Resultados del programa de trabajo durante 1984
- La cuestión nacional: Perspectiva democrática 25-26 Enero 1983
- Comunicación alternativa y desarrollo solidario ante el mundo transnacional
by Fernando Reyes Matta 1982
- Tecnología y estructura productiva
by Jorge A Sábato March 1979
- Criterios metodólógicos para el estudio de complejos agroindustriales
by Raúl Vigorito Julio 1978
- Bases para el estudio de la penetración transnacional en el complejo sectorial automotor
by Edgardo Lifschitz Julio 1978
- Un enfoque sectorial para el estudio de la penetración de las transnacionales en América Latina
by Raúl Trajtenberg Sept 1977
- Programa de investigaciones de la División de Estudios Ecónomicos 31 Dic 1977
- La televisión contra la civilidad
by Diego Portales Cifuentes and Juan Pablo Egaña Baraona Junio 1986
- La televisión contra el paro de la civilidad
by Diego Portales Cifuentes and Juan Pablo Egaña Baraona Agosto 1986
- Las productoras del estado en la televisión Mexicana
by Sol Robina 1987
- Del rostro de la noticia a la noticia en el rostro
by Martin Hopenhayn Julio 1984
- Programa de investigaciones. División de Estados Económicos Dic 1978
Transnacionales y fuerza de trabajo en la periferia
by Raúl Trajtenberg 1978
- Los centros financeros internacionales en los países subdesarrollados
by Xavier Gorostiaga 1978
- Crisis en la cooperación económica regional
by Constantino V Vaitsos 1978
- La información en el nuevo orden internacional
Ed. Fernando Reyes Matta 1977
- ILET publicaciones Marzo 1979

Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN)
Box of various publications
Including Strengthening workers’ rights by Bev Burke June 2010
Brand Campaigns and Worker Organizing. Lessons from Lesotho, Thailand and Honduras 2005

Maquiladoras
Box of various publications including
Las Maquiladoras: Ajuste estructural y desarrollo regional
Compiladores. Bernardo Gonzalez-Arechiga and Rocio Barajas Escamilla
México: El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Fundación Friedrich Ebert 1989

Restructuración Sindical en la Frontera Norte. El caso de la industria maquiladora
by Cirila Quintero Ramirez, México: El Colegio de la Frontera Norte 1997

Restructuración Industrial. Maquiladoras en la frontera México-Estados Unidos
Comp. Jorge Carrillo
Consejo Nacional de Fomento Educativo 1986

Morning NAFTA
Ottawa: Canadian Labour Congress
May 1995 No. 1 – May 1999 No. 14

Multinational Monitor
Washington: Multinational Monitor
Vol. 6 No. 17 Nov 30 1985 – Vol. 17 No. 1/2 Jan/Feb 1996

NACLA Issues on US Capital Investment in Latin America
Box of various publications

RMALC (Red Mexicana de Acción Frente al Libre Comercio)
Including Diez preguntas sencillas y otras diez mas canijas sobre la ASPAN

¿Socios? ¿Asociados? ¿En Sociedad? Asimetrías entre Canadá. EEUU. México
by Mario B Monroy Nov 1993

La Inversion en la OMC. Una trampa del Norte
by Ha-Joon Chang and Duncan Green Agosto 2003

Balance económico 1995 y perspectivas para 1996
by Mario B Monroy Gomez and Andres Penaloza Mendez

Red Mexicana de Acción Frente al Libre Comercio. 5 años de lucha (1991 – 1996)
by Alberto Arroy P and Mario B Monroy

La Alianza para la Seguridad y Prosperidad de América del Norte: Nuevo desafío a la nación Mexicana
Comp. Juan Manuel Sandoval Palacios 2008

New Internationalist. Trade, food and related items

TIE (Transnationals Information Exchange)
Box of various publications
Including Meeting the Corporate Challenge. A handbook on corporate campaigns. 1985

International Cocoa Program. First international meeting for women working in the chocolate industry May 1991

Borderlands Mexico-USA
Box of various publications including Maquila and Human Rights Issues

CAFTA – DR (binder)

Fair Trade and Alternatives
Box of various publications including A just coffee kit
Montreal: Equiterre 1997

Action Dossier. Setting a people’s agenda. No. 39 Autumn 1993
Action Canada Network

!No al ALCA! !Otra América es posible!. Las negociaciones oficiales vs Alternativas para las Américas
Sao Paulo: Alianza Social Continental 2002

Fair Trade Pamphlets and Critiques
Box of various publications

How does it all fit together? Forum on the G8 and everything you wanted to know about free trade
Kit 2002

Globalization and Free Trade
Box of various publications including security and corporate concentration

Latin American Economic Integration. Conference Papers 1965 and 1968

Mercosur
Box of various publications

NAFTA Government publications and descriptive
Box of various publications

NAFTA Critiques
Box of various publications
Including
Free or Fair Trade? Latin American and Caribbean Trade Alert
No. 1 July 1992 – Vol. 2 No. 10/11 Oct 1994, No. 15 May 1997

NAFTAThoughts
Vol. 2 No. 5 Dec 1992 – Vol. 5 No. 1 Sept 1995 (last issue Aftathoughts)

NAFTA/CAFTA-DR Critiques
Box of various publications
Including For Richer, for Poorer. Shaping U.S. – Mexican Integration
By Harry Brown with Beth Sims and Tom Barry
New Mexico: Resource Center Press 1994

North American Free Trade Area: A critical economic perspective
By Ricardo Grinspun, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives 1991

North American Integration: Interplay of world order, state and production
CERLAC 1991

Canada/Mexico/United States. Trading Away Rights. The Unfulfilled promise of NAFTA’s labor side agreement. New York: Human Rights Watch 2001

Deslinde. Revista de Cedetrabajo No. 35 Abril-Junio 2004
Bogotá: El Centro de Estudios del Trabajo

NAFTA/CAFTA-DR Impacts
Box of various publications
Including Workshop on Globalization: Opportunities and challenges March 1994

Globalization and the construction of hegemony: The Free Trade Act and the transformation of rural Mexico by June Nash and Christine Kovic
Washington: The American University

Free Trade: Free rein for transnational corporations
By Jose Victor Aguioar and Miguel Cavada Diez
Washington: EPICA (Ecumencial program on Central America and the Caribbean) 2003

Los Dos Primeros Años del TLCAN. Los mitos y la realidad
Eds. Sarah Anderson, John Cavanagh, David Ranney March 1996
Support of Action Canada et al

Impactos en la Economía Salvadoreña a tres años de vigencia del CAFTA-DR
Investigador Benjamin Ramos
El Salvador: CEICOM 2009

Plan Puebla-Panama
Box of various publications

BOOKS ON ISSUES RAISED BY FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS (alphabetical order by autor)

Alfonso Abren, Manuel Cocco, Carlos Despradel, Eduardo Garcia Michel, Arturo Peguero,
Las Zonas Francas Industriales en la República Dominicana
Santo Domingo: Centro de Orientación Económica, 1989

Peter Andreas and Thomas J Biersteker, The Rebordering of North America. Integration and exclusion in a new security context New York: Routledge, 2003

Coordinadores: Francisco Alba, Jean-Francois Prud’homme (York Politics & CERLAC), Gustavo Vega Canovas , Integración en America del Norte. Dialogo, cooperación política e institutiones
México: El Colegio México, 2007

Roberto Bouzas, Ed., Después de Doha: La agenda emergente del sistema de comercio internacional.
Madrid: Cátedra Internacional OMC/Integración Regional Marcial Pons, 2007

Marjorie Montgomery Bowker, On Guard for Thee. An independent review of the Free Trade Agreement
Québec: Voyageur 1988

Alejandro Foxley and Patricio Meller, Eds., Alianza del Pacifico: En el proceso de integración Latinoamericana. Santiago, Chile: CEPLAN Corporación de Estudios para Latinoamérica

Monica Gambrill, Ed., Diez Años del TLCAN en México. México: UNAM, 2006

Ricardo Grinspun (York Economics & CERLAC) and Yasmine Shamsie (York Politics & CERLAC) , Eds., Whose Canada? Continental integration, Fortress North America and the corporate agenda. Kingston and Montreal: Queen’s University Press and McGill University Press, with Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2007

Maria Teresa Gutierrez-Haces, Los Vecinos del Vecino. La continentalización de México y Canadá en América del Norte. México: UNAM 2015

Juan Manuel Sandoval Palacios and Miguel Angel Vazquez Ruiz, Coordinadores, En la Senda del TLCAN: Una visión critica. RMALC/Red Mexicana de Acción Frente al Libre Comercio), 2016

Steven Shrybman, The World Trade Organization. A citizen’s guide. Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 1999