HIS330H5 Chapter Notes -North American Free Trade Agreement
Document Summary
Ciudad juarez the heavy industrialization on the border mexico, due to 1993 nafta. This worker little education, migrant from poorer region of the country. American companies selling us consumer goods, this juarez is the failed free trade problem. Race to the bottom of the wage scales, huge profits for investors and race to pay their workers as little as possible. Important factor overlooked; the relationship between systematic violence against women & the changes in the social environment of the city that have allowed such violence to occur. The rapid industrialization, has introduced multinational corporations w/ mexican officials disregard health & safety needs of mexican females who work in the maquiladoras. Don"t care to have their employees have somewhere to sleep, be safe etc. 1. juarez murders is a systematic abuse against working class employees which is the result of investor priveleges guaranteed under nafta & repeated in the central american free trade agreement which immunizes the transnational investors from accountability.
