Mexican Women in American Factories: Free Trade and Exploitation on the Border

List of Abbreviations

AC Asociaciones Civiles (Civil Associations) ACLU American Civil Liberties Union AFSC American Friends Service Committee AFO Alianza Fronteriza de Obreros (Border Workers’ Alliance) ANAD Asociación Nacional de Abogados Democráticos (National Association of Democratic Lawyers) BIP Border Industrialization Program CAFTA–DR Central American Free Trade Agreement–Dominican Republic CANAMEX Canadian-American-Mexican Corridor Corridor CEO Chief Executive Officer CETRAC Centro de Trabajadores y Comunidades (Center for Workers and Communities) CFO Comité Fronterizo de Obreras (Workers’ Border Committee) CGT Confederación General de Trabajadores (General Confederation of Labor) CJM Coalición por Justicia en las Maquiladoras (Coalition for Justice in the Factories) COLEF El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (College of the Northern Border) COR Confederación de Obreros Revolucionarios (Revolutionary Workers’ Confederation) CPI Consumer Price Index CREA Center for Reflection, Education, and Action Abbreviations xii Mexican Women in American Factories CROC Confederación Revolucionaria de Obreros y Campesinos (Revolutionary Confederation of Workers and Peasants) CROM Confederación Regional de Obreros Mexicanos (Regional Confederation of Mexican Workers) CRT Confederación Revolucionaria de Trabajadores (Workers’ Revolutionary Confederation) CT Congreso del Trabajo (Workers’ Congress) CTC Confederación de Trabajadores y Campesinos (Confederation of Workers and Peasants) CTM Confederacion de Trabajadores Mexicanos (Confederation of Mexican Workers) DODS Derechos Obreros y Democracia Sindical (Union of Workers’ Rights and Democracy) FAT Frente Auténtico del Trabajo (Authentic Front of Workers) FDI Foreign Direct Investment FNSI Federación Nacional de Sindicatos Independientes (National Federation of Independent Unions) FSTSE Federación de Sindicatos de Trabajadores al Servicio del Estado (Federation of State Workers’ Unions) FTAA Free Trade Agreement of the Americas FTZ Free Trade Zone GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GSP Generalized System of Preference ILRF International Labor Rights Fund JLCA Juntas Locales de Conciliación y Arbitraje (Local Committees of Conciliation and Arbitration) HEPAC Hogar de Esperanza y Paz (Place of Hope and Peace) INFONAVIT Instituto del Fondo Nacional de la Vivienda para los Trabajadores (National Institute of Workers’ Housing) IMSS Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (Mexican Social Security Institute) INEGI Instituto Nacional de Estadística Geografía e Informaci ón (National Institute of Geographic Statistics and Information) LFT Ley Federal del Trabajo (Federal Labor Law) LISR Ley Federal del Impuesto sobre la Renta (Mexican Federal Income Tax Rules) MIP Mexican Industrialization Program MNC Multinational Corporation MPI Movimiento Proletario Internacional (International Labor Movement) NAAEC North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation NAALC North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement NAO National Administrative Office NGO Nongovermental organization PRI Partido Revolucionario Institucional (Revolutionary Institutional Party) PRONAF Programa Nacional Fronterizo (National Border Program) SEDVASR Strategic Economic Development Vision for the Arizona Sonora Region STPS Secretaría del Trabajo y Previsión Social (Secretariat of Labor and and Social Welfare) UERMW United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers UNIDO United Nations Industrial Development Organization USAS United Students Against Sweatshops U.S. GAO U.S. General Accounting Office List of Abbreviations xiii THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...