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Bortz, in Current History (Mar. 1987), 3740
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Mexico's collapsing economy requires major rebuilding of that nation's industries. But Bortz, coordinator of the Program on Mexico at the Univer- sity of California, Los Angeles, argues that Mexico's entrenched labor relations system, which "promotes industrial inefficiency, does not repre- sent workers democratically, and maintains a highly privileged labor bu- reaucracy," may block needed reforms.
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