Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Capital, Nosebleed, Lead Poisoning

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 1002A/B
• Professor: All

Document Summary

End of this class: be able to describe working conditions in mexico machines and their detrimental impacts on health. Identify systematic factors that facilitate such working conditions. Term for foreign owned assembly plants in low or tari -free zones throughout the americas. First thought to reduce illegal immigration from mexico to us. Imported parts assembled in maquilas and exported. Characterized by low wages, minimal environmental and labor protections. Mexican bip (border industrialization program) started 1960s, no tari s on imports or exports. Goal: economic stimulus mexico and for u. s illegal migration. Model replicated worldwide with free trade zones (ftzs) Loss of jobs in 1990"s as labour was even cheaper in asia. Bigger, heavy things still made in mexico, but smaller ones moved to asia. Boom in mexico after signing of nafta 1994. Promised increase in working conditions have worsened. Not enough to cover cost of living: unions are ghost unions.