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48 NAFTA and beyond: alternative perspectives in the study of global trade and development. Edited by Patricia Fernandez-Kelly and Jon Shefner. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 610, March 2007. Los Angeles: Sage Publications.
The long title of this volume is misleading. Only two of the 13 articles deal specifically with NAFTA: the joint article on migration by Patricia Fernandez-Kelly and Douglas Massey and another on labor by Raúl Delgado Wise and James Cypher, both from the University of Zacatecas in Mexico. The collection is essentially a critique of neoliberal free trade from the perspective of the new economic sociology, which Alejandro Portes fosters as director of the...