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Offshore assembly industry

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Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: 680 __ |i Here are entered works on the industry in which unfinished goods are delivered to foreign factories where they are assembled and exported.

Use for maquilas.

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Beyond Borders: A forum for labor in action around the globe, 1994 Spring

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Identifier: HD 6350 .B49
Scope and Contents

Beyond Borders covered labor and border issues. The library's holdings consist of a single Spring 1994 issue containing articles on NAFTA and cross-border organizing, Maquila health network, the legacy of Cesar Chavez, organizing beyond NAFTA, Tijuana labor conditions, and more.

Dates: Publication: 1994 Spring

Bridge Over the Border/Puente: Cross-border Bulletin/Boletino Informativo Transfronterizo, 1985-06

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Scope and Contents

Library holdings are one issue. Text in English and Spanish bound dos-a-dos, photos, news, resources. Newsletter bulletin for Latinx workers on both sides of the border. Articles: Film Processing Company: Moving from Los Angeles to Mexicali but What Chemicals are Coming With It?; Superior Industries Workers: A Bridge from Van Nuys to Tijuana; Superior Industries in Van Nuys and Tijuana; Why the Bridge? [editorial]; Assembly Plants: The Labor Unions in Mexico; and Boycott Grapes - Again.

Dates: Publication: 1985-06

Fuera de LĂ­nea, 1990-08

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Scope and Contents Fuera de Linea was a newsletter published bi-monthly by the Partido Revolucionario de las y los Trabajadores and Solidarity, two socialist organizations in Mexico and the U.S., respectively. Fuera de Linea was focused on building a revolutionary movement on the U.S.-Mexico border. Library holdings are one issue (August/September, 1990). The issue contains the following and more: "Baja California: What Changes?," "Being a Woman on the Border," "Conoce tus Derechos," "Modern Salaries in the...
Dates: Publication: 1990-08

The Door (Vol. 4, No. 3), 1972-06-22

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Scope and Contents "Mayor [Pete Wilson] Lunches With Bookies?" [Grant Grill, downtown San Diego]; "Nixon & Reagan Support the ERA: Why?"; "AIP Candidate Arrested" [John R. Heck, Jr., American Independent Party]; "Lifeguards Become Cops" [lifeguards given power to arrest people on beaches, in parks, and in adjacent parking lots]; "Postscript" [to "Concert Promoters Threaten door" article in previous issue]; "rolling stones inside & out" [concert review and riot outside venue]; "Bohmer Arrested After...
Dates: Publication: 1972-06-22