"Informative study of labor force characteristics, labor relations, and work environment in maquila plants in Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Honduras. Based on interviews with managers and workers in firms selected on the basis of availability rather than randomly. Editor and contributors discuss...

"The author is a labor lawyer for various unions. He argues for a 'mixed' economy that will allow the government and the workers to balance off the power of capital, which is becoming too great under neoliberalism"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57