Seeking a New Globalism in Chiapas. Tom Hayden.
by Hayden, Tom; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 47Business. Publisher: Nation, 2003ISSN: 1522-3191;.Subject(s): Chiapas (Mexico) | Economic development projects -- Latin America | Globalization | Indians of Mexico | Mexico -- Economic conditions | North American Free Trade Agreement | Offshore assembly industry | Protests | SweatshopsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "This is Ground Zero of globalization. The maquiladoras--the assembly plants that first emerged on the US-Mexican border in the 1960s, in which cheap labor is used to turn raw materials and parts from countries like the United States into finished products, which are then exported back to those countries--are now 'marching south,' in the phrase of Mexican President Vicente Fox, to the regions of direst poverty like Chiapas." (NATION) This article reasons that corporate globalization "pushes manufacturing jobs to sweatshops abroad while pulling desperate immigrants into the sweatshop economy of the United States."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Seeking a New Globalism in Chiapas, April 7, 2003; pp. 18+.
"This is Ground Zero of globalization. The maquiladoras--the assembly plants that first emerged on the US-Mexican border in the 1960s, in which cheap labor is used to turn raw materials and parts from countries like the United States into finished products, which are then exported back to those countries--are now 'marching south,' in the phrase of Mexican President Vicente Fox, to the regions of direst poverty like Chiapas." (NATION) This article reasons that corporate globalization "pushes manufacturing jobs to sweatshops abroad while pulling desperate immigrants into the sweatshop economy of the United States."
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