Maquilapolis – Just Across the Border, Mexican Laborers Work Cheap but Fight Hard
Tagged: border, documentary, Film, Mexico, pbsIt looks like the official airing of this program with be October 10th check out PBS’s website for more info
the filmmakers set out to show life as the workers see it, and they succeed, with often appalling clarity
“For an uplifting documentary, “Maquilapolis” sure is dismaying.
The film, a “P.O.V.” offering tonight on PBS, looks at life in the hundreds of foreign-owned factories that have sprung up along Mexico’s border with the United States since the 1960’s. These maquiladoras (the film’s title means “City of Factories”) are usually assembly plants: raw materials come in, and finished products or components go out. Corporations are attracted by tax advantages and cheap labor, and workers ”” many of them single mothers, the film notes ”” are drawn to the border by wages a bit higher than elsewhere in Mexico.”
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September 26th, 2006
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