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Papers and country case studies will be prepared prior to the conference and attendees will be able to download them here in PDF format (please click on the person''s name to view their paper).   Only summary presentations will be made at the conference, leaving most of the time for analysis, discussion and synthesis. 

Roundtable I:  Innovative Models:  Community-Based Organization

Kelly Ready    "Gendering Labor Rights in Central America:  A Key to the Gates of the Maquilas"

Mylene Hega    "Confluence & Contradictions:  The Struggle in Forging Partnerships for Women in the Community and the Trade Unions":  A Case Study on MAKALAYA"

Roundtable II:  Internal Gender Relations in Unions

Patricia Simpson & Michelle Kaminski   "Gender, Organizational Justice Perceptions, and Union Organizing"

Jinock Lee   "The Analysis of the Emergence of Women''s Trade Unions in South Korea After the East Asian Crisis"

Roundtable III:  Increasing Working Women''s Voices

Kate Bronfenbrenner    "Organizing Women:  The nature and practice of union organizing efforts among US women workers, 1986 to 2002"

Laura Chrabolowsky   "Looking for New Proposals of Social Inclusion in Argentina"