…The elites wish to snuff out defiance and stop rebellious contagion spreading across this industrial city, according to those inside the shack…“We’re going forward. This is a system of modern slavery and we have to fight.”[says lawyer]…For more than 50 years this industrial hub has provided jobs to workers, especially women, who flock here from all over Mexico...The problem, say protesters, is that the jobs have become a form of serfdom: grim conditions – long hours, frenetic pace, management intimidation – and shrivelled wages…The protest flared last October at four companies – Lexmark, Foxconn, ADC/Commscope and Eaton…Lexmark fired about 75 workers who had submitted a formal request to start a union…[A] Lexmark spokesman, also denied it, saying the company fired the 75 for “workplace disruption”, not for trying to start a union...