This paper examines the connections linking recent changes in Latino migration, the American meatpacking industry, and American immigration policy. As the meatpacking industry has vertically integrated and shifted to rural non-union areas throughout the South, it has grown increasingly dependent...

Corporate restructuring has had a profound impact on the US economy. While the problems of restructuring have been discussed in great detail, the solutions are elusive. What can or should be done to mitigate the impacts of restructuring on workers, communities, and society at large? The...

Discusses the privatization of public goods and services in urban areas. Examines the common assumption that shifting responsibility for providing goods and services to private individuals will increase the sense of community or “social capital” that binds residents of an urban area...

Professors Knoedler and Underwood discuss the concern over the decline in the number of economic majors as well as overall the enrolments in economics. For many quot;mainstreamquot; economic educators this problem obey to the fact that academic economics tend to grant lower grades on average to...