This paper will examine the linkages between global big businesses, NGOs and labor standards in the contemporary context of developing nations. Specifically, it will pay close attention to multinational corporations’ practices in terms of wages, foreign direct investment and supply chain...

Disposable women and other myths of global capitalism -- Disposable daughters and factory fathers -- Manufacturing bodies -- The dialectics of still life: murder, women, and disposability -- Maquiladora mestizas and a feminist border politics -- Crossing the factory frontier -- Paradoxes and...

Originally written in Spanish, this paper was translated in English because it discusses the importance of collecting, analysing, and disseminating statistics on the size, composition, and contribution of the informal economy, using Central America as an example. Obtaining new statistics and...