USC Team Mends Discord in Mexico

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• Stacks of cloth surround workers at a Mexican garment factory.

By: Eric Lindberg

January 30, 2012 1:55 PM

Cramped in poor working conditions and dispirited by the austere approach of their employers, workers in a Mexican garment factory were struggling with high levels of work-related stress.

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