Communicating Social Change: Structure, Culture, and Agency explores the use of
communication to transform global, national, and local structures of power that create and …

Like the First Edition, this book serves as guide to the science and art of community health
promotion. The last decade of research and development has considerably advanced the …

Some of the core's hazardous products, production processes, and wastes are transferred to
the peripheral zones of the world-system by transnational corporations (TNCs). ¹ Since few …

The Rio Grande/Bravo is an arid river basin shared by the United States and Mexico, the fifth-
longest river in North America, and home to more than 10.4 million people. By crossing …

Increasing numbers of women have become sex workers, maids, or employees in export
production networks—all largely female sectors—to earn incomes in the restructured global …

Over the last three and one-half decades, the development of twin industrial plants,
maquilas, along the US-Mexico border has resulted in industrialization of the northern tier of …

This paper presents 12 body dimensions of female workers of the maquiladora industry
along the border of Mexico and the United States (US). These data are compared with …

In the past decades, Mexico has hosted one of the world's deadliest internal conflicts. There
are few global parallels to the scale of killing, disappearances, mass graves, feminicides …

Este artículo describe los hallazgos de un estudio sobre riesgos laborales en la industria
electrónica de Tamaulipas, realizado en 1998 y 1999. La investigación analiza el …

In order to estimate the prevalence of potentially hazardous exposures and the frequencies
of, types of, and reasons for job transitions among women working in the Mexican …