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AMI American Meat Institute BCBP Bureau of Customs and Border Protection BLI Bureau of Labor and Industries (Washington State) BMI Binational Migration Institute (University of Arizona) CTD cumulative trauma disorder DHS Department of Homeland Security EOI export-oriented industrialization HRW Human Rights Watch IBP Iowa Beef Processors Inc. (founded as Iowa Beef Packers; later IBP Inc.) IBT International Brotherhood of Teamsters ICE Immigration and Customs Enforcement INS Immigration and Naturalization Service IRC Interhemispheric Resource Center IRCA Immigration Reform and Control Act ISI import substitution industrialization IWFR Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride MLP Mujeres Luchadoras Progresistas (Progressive Women Activists) MSD musculoskeletal disorder NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement NIOSH National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health NLRA National Labor Relations Act NLRB National Labor Relations Board OLA OrganizaciĆ³n de Lastimados Ayudando (Organization of Injured Workers Helping Others) OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration PCUN PiƱeros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (United Northwest Tree Planters and Farm Workers) Acronyms xi PERI Political Economy Research Institute (University of Massachusetts) PPD personal protective device PRI Partido Revolucionario Institucional (Institutional Revolutionary Party of Mexico) SEIU Service Employees International Union TDU Teamsters for a Democratic Union UFCW United Food and Commercial Workers UFW United Farm Workers USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture WVIP Willamette Valley Immigration Project xii Acronyms ...

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