This paper examines the status of Mexican labor in Los Angeles since 1970, the period of extraordinary growth. Historically, mexican workers were an integral but subordinate part of the Southwest in general (Briggs, Fogel and Schmidt 1977; Barrera 1987) and Los Angeles in particular (Romo 1983), but...

Conventional views of comparative advantage hold that capital-inten-sive manufacture should be located in industrialised nations, while labour-intensive aspects should locate in developing nations. This view has had to come to terms with the fact that countries such as South Korea, Taiwan and...