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Prior to the millennium, economists and policy makers argued that free trade between the United States and Mexico would benefit both Americans and Mexicans. They believed that NAFTA would be a "win-win" proposition that would offer U.S. companies new markets for their products and Mexicans the hope of living in a more developed country with the modern conveniences of wealthier nations. Blending rigorous economic and statistical analysis with concern...
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Examines the gendered nature of social reproduction (i.e. household chores, child care and biological reproduction) and export production in the foreign-owned assembly plants in Nogales and Ciadad Madero at the border with the United States. Studies the intersection of class and gender dynamics in the radical transformation of Mexican industrial strategy, from a State-led import substitution emphasis to a neoliberal export-orientation based on transnational...
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Using video diaries kept by two women promotoras (community activists), this documentary explores the environmental devastation and urban chaos of Tijuana's maquiladoras, the multinationally owned factories that came to Mexico for cheap labor. Maquiladora workers--overwhelmingly women--produce televisions, electrical cables, toys, clothes, batteries and IV tubes, they weave the very fabric of life for consumer nations. They also confront labor violations,...
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