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Harley Shaiken
hshaiken@berkeley.edu

Harley Shaiken is a Professor of Education and Geography at the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Currently, he is doing research in a number of interrelated areas: the nature of global economic integration, the US-Mexican border, labor rights and trade, labor and the global economy and the changing nature of work.

Contributions

Getting beyond the myths of CAFTA
ASK THIS | June 178, 2005
The debate over CAFTA is often framed as being one between the forces of free trade and the forces of protection. But that has little to do with the realities of CAFTA, a complex managed trade agreement that caters to the elites and would doom the workers of Central America to an unacceptable status quo.