Mexican Women in American Factories: Free Trade and Exploitation on the Border by Tuttle, Carolyn
Mexican Women in American Factories: Free Trade and Exploitation on the Border by Tuttle, Carolyn

Mexican Women in American Factories: Free Trade and Exploitation on the Border

Prior to the millennium, economists and policy makers argued that free trade between the United States and...
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Mexican Women in American Factories: Free Trade and Exploitation on the Border by Tuttle, Carolyn

Mexican Women in American Factories: Free Trade and Exploitation on the Border

$475.40
Mexican Women in American Factories: Free Trade and Exploitation on the Border by Tuttle, Carolyn

Mexican Women in American Factories: Free Trade and Exploitation on the Border

$475.40
Author: Carolyn Tuttle
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Prior to the millennium, economists and policy makers argued that free trade between the United States and Mexico would benefit both Americans and Mexicans. They believed that NAFTA would be a "win-win" proposition that would offer U.S. companies new markets for their products and Mexicans the hope of living in a more developed country with the modern conveniences of wealthier nations. Blending rigorous economic and statistical analysis with concern for the people affected, Mexican Women in American Factories offers the first assessment of whether NAFTA has fulfilled these expectations by examining its socioeconomic impact on workers in a Mexican border town.

Carolyn Tuttle led a group that interviewed 620 women maquila workers in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. The responses from this representative sample refute many of the hopeful predictions made by scholars before NAFTA and reveal instead that little has improved for maquila workers. The women's stories make it plain that free trade has created more low-paying jobs in sweatshops where workers are exploited. Families of maquila workers live in one- or two-room houses with no running water, no drainage, and no heat. The multinational companies who operate the maquilas consistently break Mexican labor laws by requiring women to work more than nine hours a day, six days a week, without medical benefits, while the minimum wage they pay workers is insufficient to feed their families. These findings will make a crucial contribution to debates over free trade, CAFTA-DR, and the impact of globalization.



Author: Carolyn Tuttle
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 11/01/2012
Pages: 253
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9780292756847

About the Author
Tuttle, Carolyn: - Carolyn Tuttle is Betty Jane Schultz Hollender Professor of Economics at Lake Forest College, where she is currently Chair of the Latin American Studies Department and Director of the Border Studies Program. She also authored Hard at Work in Factories and Mines: The Economics of Child Labor in Great Britain.
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