Maquiladora Health & Safety Support Network
Reading & Resource List
Last update: January 2000
List A - Technical Articles and Reports
Abbott, J; "Export processing zones and the developing world;" Contemporary Review 270; 232-237; 1997.
Albrecht, LJ; "Troubling Waters: Sister Cities Struggle with Health Conditions on the U.S.-Mexico Border;" Texas Medicine; 89 (10):24-25; October 1993.
American Public Health Association, Governing Council Policy Statement 9404; "Trade Agreements and Environmental and Occupational Health;" American Journal of Public Health; Vol. 85, No. 3; March 1995.
-- Governing Council Interim Policy Statement LB2; "NAFTA Side Agreements: Trade Laws Affecting Occupational Health and Safety and Environmental Health;" American Journal of Public Health; Vol. 84, No. 3; March 1994.
Ashford, Nicholas A.; "International Control of Occupational and Environmental Health Hazards;" International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health; Vol. 1, pp. 142-147; 1995.
Balcazar, H, Catalina Denman and Francisco Lara; "Factors associated with work-related accidents and sickness among maquiladora workers: the case of Nogales, Sonora, Mexico;" International Journal of Health Services; Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 489-502; 1995.
Barth, Peter S., "Compensating Workers for Occupational Diseases: An International Perspective," The International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health; Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 147-157; April/June 1995.
Becerril, Cedillo LA, and Harlow SD, Sanchez RA, Sanchez Monroy D; "Establishing priorities for occupational health research among women working in the maquiladora industry;" International Journal Occupational Environmental Health; 3: 221-230, 1997.
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle.; "Skirting the Issue: Women and International Health in Historical Perspective;" American Journal of Public Health; Vol. 89, No. 3, p. 399; March 1999.
Block, Miguel Angel Gonzalez; "La Salud Reproductiva de las Trabajadoras de la Maquiladora de Exportacion en Tijuana, Baja California, Diagnostico y Retos para las Politicas de Salud," Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte/Funacion Mexicana para la Salud; November 1996.
Brown, Garrett; "Mexican Labor Department's Failure to Enforce Safety Laws Threatens Lives of Han Young Workers in Tijuana," Maquiladora Health and Safety Support Network; 1998.
--"Failure to Enforce Safety Laws Threatens Lives of Tijuana Workers;"
New Solutions; vol.9(1); pp.119-123; 1999.
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety; Using the
Internet to Access Health and Safety Resources; 66 pp. $39.
Carmona-Carmona, Isalia, Pablo Lopez-Rojas, Maribel Salas, Araceli
Main Cotonieto and Adolfo Bohorquez Lopez; "Risk Factors Associated
with Occupational Back Sprain in Mexican Workers;" International
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health; Vol. 2, No.
4, p. 327; October/December 1996.
Carter, DE, C Pena, R Varady and WA Suk; "Environmental Health
and Hazardous Wastes Issues Related to the US-Mexico Border;"
Environmental Health Perspectives; June 1996.
Cassidy, J; "Global economy pressures U.S. industry, healthcare;"
Health Progress; Vol. 73, No. 6, pp. 18-19, 38; July-August 1992.
Castleman, Barry I., "Global Corporate Policies and International
"Double Standards in Occupational and Environmental Health;" The
International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health;
Vol 5, No. 1, pp. 61-64; January/March 1999.
Castleman, Barry I, "The Migration of Industrial Hazards," The
International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health;
Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 85-95;1995.
Castleman, Barry I. and Richard A. Lemen; "The Manipulation of
International Scientific Organizations;" International Journal
of Occupational and Environmental Health; Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 53-55;
January/March 1998.
Casto, Keith M. and E. Patrick Ellisen; "ISO 14000: Origin, Structure,
and Potential Barriers to Implementation;" International Journal
of Occupational and Environmental Health; Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 99-124;
April/June 1996.
Cedillo Becerril, Leonor A., Sioban D. Harlow, Roberto A. Sanchez
and David Sanchez Monroy; "Establishing Priorities for Occupational
Health Research Among Women Working in the Maquiladora Industry;"
International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health;
Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 221-230; July/September 1997.
Cedillo, LA and SD Harlow, RA Sanchez, D Sanchez-Monroy; "Establishing
priorities for occupational health research among women working
in the maquiladora industry;" International Journal of Occupational
and Environmental Health; 1997; 3:221-30.
Centro de Estudios Fronterizos y de Promocion de los Derechos
Humanos; "La Industria Maquiladora y Su Impacto en la Frontera,"
Estudios Fronterizos; No. 7; 1997.
Ceron-Mireles, Prudencia, Sioban D. Harlow, and Constanza I. Sanchez-Carrillo;
"The Risk of Prematurity and Small-for-Gestional-Age Birth in
Mexico City: The Effects of Working Conditions and Antenatal Leave;"
American Journal of Public Health; Vol. 86, No. 6, pp. 825-831;
June 1996.
Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras; "The Issue is Health,"
1993.
-- La Ley Federal del Trabajo: Una Guia para las Obreras y los
Obreros de la Industria Maquiladora, Borrador.
Cohen, Howard; "Summary of North American Free Trade Agreement
Meeting on the Electronics Industry;" American Industrial Hygiene
Association Journal; Vol. 56, pp. 926-928; September 1995.
Comite de Apoyo Fronterizo Obrero Regional (CAFOR); The CAFOR
Survey of Maquiladora Workers on Occupational Health and Safety
in Tijuana and Tecate, Mexico; June-July 1996; (Berkeley, CA:
Maquiladora Health and Safety Network; Winter 1997).
Coppee, GH; "International Cooperation in Occupational Health:
The Role of International Organizations;" International Journal
of Occupational and Environmental Health; Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 200-210;
April/June 1995.
Cordes, DH, DF Rea, I Schwartz, and J Rea; "Mexico, Maquiladoras,
and Occupational Medicine Training;" Asia-Pacific Journal of Public
Health; Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 61-67; 1989.
Council on Scientific Affairs; "A permanent U.S.-Mexico border
environmental health commission;" JAMA; Vol. 263, No. 24, pp.
3319-3321; June 27, 1990.
Delclos, George L., MD, MPH and Sarah A. Felknor, Dr PH, Maria
T. Morandi, PhD, Lawrence J. Schulze, PhD, Ligia Sanchez Tovar,
PhD, Leopoldo Yanes, MS; "The Role of Information Dissemination
in Sustainability of International Partnerships;" International
Journal Occupational Environmental Health; 1999; 5:203-208.
Denman, Catalina A.; "Las repercusiones de la industria maquiladora
de exportacion en la salud: el peso al nacer de hijos de obreras
en Nogales;" Serie Cuadernos de Trabajo, El Colegio de Sonora
(Avenida Obregon No. 54, Colonia Centro, Hermosillo, 83000, Sonora,
Mexico); 135 pp.; 1991.
--"Indicadores de salud-enfermedad: el caso de riesgo reproductivo
de obreras de la maquila;" Practicas populares, ideologia medica
y participacion social, aportes sobre antropologia medica en Mexico;
CIESAS-Universidad de Guadalajara; pp117-137; 1992.
-- "Industrialization y maternidad en el noroeste de Mexico;"
Cuadernos de Trabajo de la Gaceta; Num.2; El colegio de Sonora,
pp1-6; 1990.
-- "Madres y maquiladoras en Nogales, Sonora;" Nuevos textos y
renovados pretextos; El Colegio de Mexico; pp277-316; 1994.
-- "Productos toxicos y potencialmente peligrosos en la industria
fronteriz;" Ecologia, recursos naturales y medio ambiente en sonora;
El Colegio de Sonora; Gobierno del Estado de Sonora; pp277-298;
Hermosillo; 1992.
-- "Salud en la Maquila: Preguntas para la Investigacion," Nueva
Antropologia; Vol. 16, No. 52; August 1997.
-- "Salud y Maquila: Acotaciones del Campo de Investigacion en
Vista de las Contribuciones Recientes," Unpublished manuscript,
1997.
-- "Tiempos modernos: Trabajar y morir: toxicos en la maquila;"
Modernization y legislacion laboral en el noroeste de Mexico;
Universidad de Sonora, EL Colegio de Sonora, Fundacion Friedrich
Ebert, pp195-220; Hermosillo; 1990.
Denman, Catalina A., and Dr. J. Armando Haro E.; "El proceso salud/enfermedad;"
Revista de El Colegio de Sonora, Vol. 2, No. 2, El Colegio de
Sonora (Avenida Obregon No. 54, Colonia Centro, Hermosillo, 83000,
Sonora, Mexico); 1990.
Denman, Catalina, Blanca Lara, Francisco Lara, and Hector Balcazar;
"Reestructuracion productiva y condiciones de trabajo en la maquila
en Sonora;" Sindicalismo, relaciones laborales y libre comercio;
El Colegio de sonora; Centro Nacional de Promocion Social; Instituto
Sonorense de Cultura, pp. 135-163, 1993.
Denman, Catalina and Rosa Delia Caudillo; "Environmental institutional
participation along the U.S. Mexico border region;" Empowerment
and public policy: NAFTA and the environmental side agreements;
Boulder Colorado; Westview Press; (en prensa 1996).
Denman, Catalina A., Jill Guernsey de Zapien, Jesus Armando Haro;
Nuria Homedes; Paul La Brec; Martha Monroy and Ivy Schwartz; "Atencion
perinatal en ambos Nogales; La necesidad de cooperacion binacional;"
Revista Salud Fronteriza/Border Health; Vol. III, No. 3, pp. 33-42;
July-September 1992.
Denman, Catalina, Michelle Saint-Germain and Jill de Zapien; "Estrategias
de atencion a hijos de obreras de las plantas ensambladoras de
la frontera;" Revista de El colegio de Sonora; Ano IV, Vol. 1,
No. 5, pp 77-93, Hermosillo, Sonora, 1993.
Denman Catalina nad Gilda Salazar; "Maternidad y trabajo en el
noreste de Mexico;" Mujer: salud y sexualidad, cultura y participacion
social; El Colegio de Sonora y Secretaria de Salud Publica de
Estado de Sonora, pp 1-134; 1994.
Drysdale, Dale T.; "A Summary of the Trinational Seminar on Safety
and Health for the Construction Industry;" American Industrial
Hygiene Association Journal; Vol. 56, No. 6, pp. 929-934; September
1995.
Dyjack, D.T. and S.P. Levine; "Development of an ISO compatible
health standard: defining the issues;" American Industrial Hygiene
Association Journal; Vol. 56, pp. 599-609; 1995.
El Colegio de la Frontera Norte; "Encuesta de Rotacion de Trabajadores
en la Industria Maquiladora de Tijuana;" El Collegio de la Frontera
Norte de Mexico; 1992.
Eskenazi, Brenda, Sylvia Guendelman, Eric P. Elkin and M Jasis;
"A Preliminary Study of Reproductive Outcomes of Female Maquiladora
Workers in Tijuana, Mexico;" American Journal of Industrial Medicine;
Vol. 24, No. 6, pp. 667-676; December 1993.
Espinosa-Torres, F, M Hernandez-Avila and L Lopez-Carillo; "NAFTA:
a challenge and an opportunity for environmental health;" Salud
Publica de Mexico; Vol. 36, No. 6, pp. 597-616; Nov-Dec 1994.
Fitzmaurice, Mark L.; Industrial Hygiene Survey of Maquiladora
Industries, Masters thesis; 1996.
Frenk, Julio, Octavio Gomez-Dantes, Carlos Cruz, Fernando Chacon,
Patricia Hernandez and Phyllis Freeman; "Consequences of the North
American Free Trade Agreement for Health Services: A Perspective
from Mexico;" American Journal of Public Health; Vol. 84, No.
10, pp. 1591-1597; October 1994.
Froines, John R., PhD, and Robert Barile, MA; "Approaches to Addressing
Occupational and Environmental Health Needs in Mexico;" International
Journal Occupational Environmental Health; 1999; 5-:208-212.
Frumkin, Howard; "Right, Wrong, and Occupational Health: Lessons
Learned;" International Journal of Occupational and Environmental
Health; Vol. 4, No. 1, p.34; January/March 1998.
Frumkin, Howard, Mauricio Hernández-Avila, and Felipe Espinosa
Torres; "Maquiladoras: A Case Study of Free Trade Zones;" International
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health; Vol. 1, No.
2, pp. 96-109; April-June 1995.
General Accounting Office; Occupational Safety and Health and
Child Labor Policies of the United States and Mexico (GAO/T-HRD-91-22);
April 30, 1991.
-- International Environment: Environmental Infrastructure Needs
in the U.S.-Mexican Border Region Remain Unmet (GAO/RCED-96-179)
July 1996.
-- North American Free Trade Agreement: U.S.-Mexico Trade and
Investment Data; (GAO/GGD-92-131); September 25, 1992.
-- NAFTA: Assessment of Major Issues, A Report to Congress (GAO/GGD-93-137);
two volumes; 1993.
-- Occupational Safety and Health. Differences between Programs
in the United States and Mexico (HRD-94-15FS); 1993.
-- U.S.-Mexico Trade: Assessment of Mexico's Environmental Controls
for New Companies (GAO/GGD-92-113); August 1992.
-- U.S.-Mexico Trade: Information on Wages, Fringe Benefits and
Workers Rights (GAO/NSIAD-91-220); May 10, 1991.
-- U.S.-Mexico Trade: The Work Environment at Eight U.S.-Owned
Maquiladora Auto Parts Plants (GAO/GGD-94-22); November 1993.
Goldman, Lynn R.; "Reproductive and Developmental Toxicity: An
International Perspective;" International Journal of Occupational
and Environmental Health; Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 70-72; January/March
1996.
Gosselin, P, Belanger, S, Bibeault, JF and A Webster; "Indicators
for a Sustainable Society;" Canadian Journal of Public Health;
Vol. 84, No. 3, pp. 197-200; May-June 1993.
Greenlund, KJ and RH Elling; "Capital sectors and workers' health
and safety in the United States;" International Journal of Health
Services; Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 101-116; 1995.
Guendelman, Sylvia; "Women Who Quit Maquiladora Work on the U.S.-
Mexico Border: Assessing Health, Occupation, and Social Dimensions
in Two Transnational Electronic Plants;" American Journal of Industrial
Medicine; Vol. 33, pp. 501-509; 1998.
Guendelman, Sylvia and M. Jasis; "Electronics and Garment Maquiladoras
in Tijuana;" Border Health; Vol. 8, pp. 41-55; 1992.
-- "The Health Consequences of Maquiladora Work: Women on the
U.S.- Mexican Border; " American Journal of Public Health; Vol.
8, pp. 37-44; 1993.
Guendelman, Sylvia, and Monica Jasis Silberg; "The Health Consequences
of Maquiladora Work: Women on the U.S.-Mexican Border;" American
Journal of Public Health; Vol. 83, No. 1, January 1993.
Guendelman, Sylvia, Samuels, S. and M. Ramirez; "Maquila Work
Effects: The Health and Social Status of Women Who Quit. Final
Report. Submitted to the Carnegie Corporation of New York;" 1996.
Guerra, M.T. and A.L. Torriente; "The NAALC and the Labor Laws
of Mexico and the United States;" Arizona Journal of International
and Comparative Law; vol.14; no.2; 1997.
Harlow, Sioban D, PhD, Leonor A. Cedillo Becerril, MOH, Jerod
N. Scholten, MPH, David Sanchez Monroy, PhD, Roberto A. Sanchez,
PhD; "The Prevalence of Musculoskeletal Complaints among Women
in Tijuana, Mexico: sociodemographic and Occupational Risk Factors;"
International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health;
5:267-275; 1999.
Hecker, Steven; "Occupational Health and Safety Policy in the
European Community: A Case Study of Economic Integration and Social
Policy; Part 1 -- Early Initiatives Through the Single European
Act;" New Solutions, Summer 1993; "Part 2 -- The Framework Directive:
Whither Harmonization?" New Solutions; Fall 1993.
Hernandez-Pena, P, C. Gutierrez-Zuniga, R. Zurutuza-Fernandez,
O. Jimenez-Gonzalez; "The Free Trade Agreement and environmental
health in Mexico;" Salud Publica de Mexico; Vol. 35, No. 2, pp.
119-31; Mar-Apr. 1993.
Hovell, M.; "Occupational Health Risks for Mexican Women: The
Case of the Maquiladora Along the Mexican-United States Border;"
International Journal of Health Services; No. 18, pp. 617-627;
1988.
Hovell, MF and C Sipan, CR Hofstetter, et al; "Occupational health
risks for Mexican women: the case of the maquiladora along the
Mexican-United States border;" International Journal of Occupational
and Environmental Health Services; 18:617-627; 1988.
Hovell, Melbourne, Carol Sipan, C. Richard Hofstetter, Barbara
C. DuBois, Andrew Krefft, John Conway, Monica Jasis, and Hope
L. Issacs; "Occupational Health Risks For Mexican Women: The Case
Of The Maquiladora Along the Mexican - United States Border;"
International Journal of Health Services; Vol. 18, No. 4, pp.
617-627; 1988.
Hryhorczuk, Daniel O.; "The Global Lead Debate: A Call to Action;"
International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health;
Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 366-7; October/December 1995.
"Indicadores de salud-enfermedad: el case de riesgo reproductivo
en obreras de la maquila;" Practica populares, ideologia medica
y participacion social (Eduardo L. Menendez y Javier E. Garcia
de Alba, editors); Aportes sobre antropología medica en Mexico;
Universidad de Guadalajara-CIESAS; pp. 117-136; 1992.
"Industrializacion y maternidad en el noroeste de Mexico;" Gaceta
No. 10 de El Colegio de Sonora, Cuaderno de Trabajo, No. 2, Julio-Septiembre
de 1990; pp. 1-6.
Huang C-L, Chen M-S; "Industrial workers? health and environmental
pollution under the New International Division of Labor: The Taiwan
Experience;" American Journal of Public Health; 87:1223-1231;
1997.
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions; "Basic Code
of Conduct Covering Labour Practices" available on the web: www.icftu.org/english/tncs/tncscode98.html
Jasis, Monica and Sylvia Guendelman; "Maquiladoras and women on
the U.S.-Mexico border: A benefit or a determent to occupational
health?" (Spanish language); Salud Publica de Mexico; Vol. 35,
No. 6, pp. 620-629; November-December 1993.
Juntos Aprendimos; Conociendo la Leyes Nos Defendemos Mejor: Legislacion
Laboral y Salud; Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, No. 3.
Kaczmarczyk, Joseph M. and Maureen E. Paul; "Reproductive Health
Hazards in the Workplace: Guidelines for Policy Development and
Implementation;" International Journal of Occupational and Environmental
Health; Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 48-58; January/March 1996.
Kopinak, Kathryn; "Industrial Exchanges Across the U.S.-Mexico
Border: The Export Platform Thesis Reconsidered in Tijuana & San
Diego;" Frontera Norte; Publicacion Semestral de el Colegio de
la Frontera Norte; vol.10; num. 19, enero-junio de 1998.
Kossoudji, SA; "Playing cat and mouse at the U.S.-Mexico border;"
Demography, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 159-180; May 1992.
Kourous, George; "Workers' Health is on the Line: Occupational
Health and Safety in the Maquiladoras;" Borderlines; Vol. 6, No.
6, pp. 1-2; August 1998.
Kromhout, H; "Occupational hygiene in developing countries: something
to talk about?" Annals of Occupational Hygiene; vol 43; no 8;
pp501-503.
La Botz, Daniel; "Manufacturing Poverty: The Maquilaization of
Mexico;" International Journal of Health Services; Vol. 24, No.
3, pp. 403-408; 1994.
Ladou, Joe and Timothy Rohm; "The International Electronics Industry;"
International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health;
Vol. 4, No. 1, pp.1-18; January/March 1998.
Ladou, Joseph; "In Many Areas of the World, the Migration of Reproductive
Hazards Precedes the Development and Implementation of Reproductive
Policy;" International Journal of Occupational and Environmental
Health; Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 73-75; January/March 1996.
Legator, Marvin S.; "Industry Pressures on Scientific Investigators;"
International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health;
Vol. 4, No. 2, p. 133; April/June 1998.
Lemus, Blanca E.; "Industrial Growth and Water Pollution: The
Case of Tijuana - San Diego;" New Solutions, Vol. 5, No. 1; Fall
1994.
-- "Occupational Health and Safety In Mexico;" New Solutions;
Vol. 5, No. 4; Summer 1995.
Lemus, Blanca and David Barkin; "The Impact of Intergration on
Mexico's Workers: Why GATT, NAFTA, WTO, and OECD Are Important;"
New Solutions, Vol. 8, 1998.
Lemus-Ruiz, Blanca E.; "The Local Impact of Globalization: Worker
Health and Safety in Mexico's Sugar Industry;" International Journal
of Occupational and Environmental Health; Vol. 5, No. 1, pp.56-60;
January/March 1999.
Levy, Barry S.; "Health and Social Effects of Worldwide Economic
Transformation: Focus on Occupational and Environmental Health;"
Social Justice; Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 77-84; Winter 1995.
-- "The Future of Environment and Health: A Global Perspective;"
International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health;"
Vol 5; No 4; October /December 1999.
Levy, Barry S and KM Rest; "Policies to Protect and Promote Workers'
Health Are Necessary for Sustainable Development;" in G. Shandi,
B.S. Levy and A. Binger, et. al., eds. Towards A Sustainable World:
International Perspectives on Environment, Development and Health;
Springer Press, New York, 1996.
Lewis, Sanford and Marco Kaltofen; "Border Trouble: Rivers in
Peril, A Report on Water Pollution Due to Industrial Development
in Northern Mexico;" New Solutions, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1992.
Lewis, SJ, M Kaltofen, M Waygan, and G Ormsby; Border Trouble:
Rivers in Peril; A Report on Water Pollution Due to Industrial
Development in Northern Mexico; National Toxics Campaign Fund;
Boston, MA; 1991.
Loewenson, Rene; "People-centered Science and Globalization: Putting
the Public Back into Public Health Policy;" International Journal
of Occupational and Environmental Health; Vol. 5, No. 1, pp.65-71;
January/March 1999.
McGuiness, MJ; "Free trade and occupational health policy: an
argument for health and safety across the North American workplace;"
Salud Publica de Mexico; Vol. 36, No. 6, pp. 578-96; Nov-Dec 1994.
-- "The Landscape of Labor Law Enforcement in North America: An
Examination of Mexico's Labor Regulatory Policy and Practice,"
Law and Policy in International Business; 1998.
-- "The Politics of Labor Regulation in North America: A Defense
of Mexico's Labor Law Enforcement Efforts in the Workplace," Unpublished
manuscript.
-- "The Role of Sanctions and Incentives in Labor Regulations:
Mexico's Administrative Procedure," Unpublished Manuscript.
Merideth, Emily and Garrett Brown; "The Maquiladora Health and
Safety Support Network: Case Study of Public Health Without Borders;"
Social Justice; Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 85-88; Winter 1995.
Meservy, Darlene, Anthony J. Suruda, Donald Bloswick, Jeffrey
Lee and Mark Dumas, "Ergonomic Risk Exposure and Upper-Extremity
Cumulative Trauma Disorders in a Maquiladora Medical Devices Manufacturing
Plant," Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine; Vol.
39, No. 8, pp. 767, August, 1997.
Mignella, Amy T. and Dr. Mariana Silviera, "US and Mexican Hazardous
Waste Site Regulations: a Comparison," National Law Center for
Inter-American Free Trade available on the web: www.natlaw.com
Moure-Eraso, Rafael, Meg Wilcox, Laura Punnett, Leslie MacDonald
and Charles Levenstein; "Back to the Future: Sweatshop Conditions
on the Mexico-U.S. Border; I. Community health impact of maquiladora
industrial activity;" American Journal of Industrial Medicine;
Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 311-324; March 1994.
-- "Back to the Future: Sweatshop Conditions on the Mexico-US
Border. II. Occupational Health Impact of Maquiladora Industrial
Activity," American Journal of Industrial Medicine 31:587-599,
1997.
National Administrative Office's Review; Complaint on pregnancy-based
gender Discrimination in Mexico's maquiladora sector, available
on the web: http://dol.gov/dol/ilab/public/aboutilab/org/nao.htm
National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade, 111 South Church
Avenue Suite 200, Tucson AZ 85701-1629 USA. "Selected Translations
of Mexican Laws," available on the web: www.natlaw.com
Navarro, Vicente; "Comment: Whose Globalization?;" American Journal
of Public Health; May 1998; Vol.88; No.5.
Nickey, LN; "The U.S.-Mexico Border: Environmental Squalor Threatens
Public Health;" Internist; Vol. 35, No. 5, pp. 14-16; May 1992.
Nieto, Pedrero M.; "The Economically Active Population in the
Northern Region of Mexico: Demographic Dynamics of the U.S.- Mexico
Border;" Texas Western Press; pp. 201-218.
Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress; "U.S.-Mexico Trade:
Pulling Together or Pulling Apart?"; ITE-545, U.S. Government
Printing Office; Washington, DC; October 1992.
Ortega-Cesena, J., F Espinosa-Torres and L Lopez-Carillo; "Health
risk control for orgonophosphate pesticides in Mexico: challenges
under the Free Trade Treaty;" Salud Publica de Mexico; Vol. 36,
No. 6, pp. 624-632; November-December 1994.
Penney, J.; "Work and Health in the Global Economy: A Report;"
New Solutions; Vol. 5, No. 4; pp. 4-15; 1997.
Petropoulos, Evangelos A., MD, PhD, and Sarah Felknor, Dr PH,
MS, Ivan Ivanov, MD, Dana Loomis, PhD; "Is Short-term Training
Useful in International Environmental and Occupational Health
Projects? Experience from the Balkans and Latin America;" International
Journal Occupational Environmental Health; 1999; 5:223-233.
Poole, DL; "NAFTA, American health and Mexican health: They tie
together" (editorial); Health and Social Work; Vol. 21, No. 1,
pp. 3-7; February 1996.
Redlinger, Thomas, Kathleen O'Rourke and James VanDerslice, "Hepatitis
A among School Children in a US-Mexico Border Community," American
Journal of Public Health, Vol. 87, No. 10, pp.1715-1718, October
1997
Roemer, M.I., "Comment: The Globalization of Public Health," American
Journal of Public Health, Vol. 88, No.5, p 744, May 1988
Rosas, Dr. Alan L. and Kenneth J. Salamon; " U.S. and Mexican
Workplace Regulations: The Paper Trial of Industrial Safety,"
Business Mexico; Vol. 4, No. 5; May 1994.
Saint-Germain, Michelle A., Jill Guernsey de Zapien and Catalina
A. Denman; "Child Care Arrangements of Women Workers in Border
Assembly Plants;" Unpublished Manuscript, University of Arizona,
Tucson; 1992.
-- "Estrategias de atencion a hijos de obreras de las plantas
ensambladoras de la frontera;" El Colegio de Sonora, No. 5, Ano
IV, Vol. 1; Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico; 1993.
Sanchez, Roberto; "Condiciones de vida de los trabajadores de
la maquiladora en Tijuana y Nogales;" Frontera Norte (El Colegio
de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, Mexico), Vol. 2, pp. 153-181; 1990.
-- "Health and environmental risks of the maquiladora in Mexicali;"
Natural Resources Journal; Vol. 30, pp. 163-186; 1990.
-- "Water quality problems in Nogales, Sonora;" Environmental
Health Perspectives, 103 Suppl 1:93-97; Feb.1995.
Sekimpi, K. Deogratias, Anamaria Testa Tambellini and Le Van Trung,
"The Global Economy and Occupational Health," International Journal
of Occupational and Environmental Health, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 76-78;
April/June1995.
Silbergeld, Ellen K.; "The International Dimensions of Lead Exposure;"
International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health;
Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 336-348; October/December 1995.
Skolnick, Andrew A.; "Along US Southern Border, Pollution, Poverty,
Ignorance and Greed Threaten Nation's Health;" JAMA, Medical News
& Perspectives; Vol. 273, No. 19, pp. 1480-1482; May 17, 1995.
-- "Crossing 'Line on a Map' in Search of Hope;" JAMA; Vol. 273,
No. 21; p. 1646; June 1995.
Sklair, L; "Assembling for Development: The Maquila Industry in
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