Endangering women's health for profit: health and safety in Mexico's maquiladoras
Abell, Hilary
Abell, Hilary
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1999-11-01
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6
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Since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was agreed, thousands of maquiladoras (assembly plants) have sprung up along the Mexican side of the Mexico/US border. Around a million workers are subject to violations of their human, labour, and health rights, the author argues, and this is a by-product of `free trade'. Abell advocates worker organising, appropriate training and access to information, and international solidarity, in order to avoid such abuses here and in the growing number of export processing zones (EPZs) around the world.
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Development in Practice
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9
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5
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0961-4524
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1364-9213