Hayden, Tom,

Seeking a New Globalism in Chiapas. Tom Hayden. - Nation, 2003. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Article 47, Business, 1522-3191; .

Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. 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."

1522-3191;


Economic development projects--Latin America
Globalization
Indians of Mexico
North American Free Trade Agreement
Offshore assembly industry
Protests
Sweatshops


Chiapas (Mexico)
Mexico--Economic conditions

AC1.S5

050