Over 3,000 maquiladoras in mexico; majority owned by u.s. Interests. Women preferred because they are less expensive to employ than men, Mattingly says. Women prefer factories because they are more mature, reliable, and less apt to jump from job to job.
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Over 3,000 maquiladoras in mexico; majority owned by u.s. Interests. Women preferred because they are less expensive to employ than men, Mattingly says. Women prefer factories because they are more mature, reliable, and less apt to jump from job to job.
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Over 3,000 maquiladoras in mexico; majority owned by u.s. Interests. Women preferred because they are less expensive to employ than men, Mattingly says. Women prefer factories because they are more mature, reliable, and less apt to jump from job to job.
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By Reilly Smith What is a maquiladora?? •Factories that make goods on contract to a “parent” company
•There are over 3,000 maquiladoras in Mexico;
the majority are owned by U.S. interests and located within thirty miles of the border
•“In 1980, the maquiladoras employed about
120,000 workers; by 1990, their numbers had risen to over 400,000; and at its high point of 1999, some 1.3 million held maquiladora jobs,” (Mattingly, 81). http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF1901/Davidson/Davidson04.jpg Women over men •“Women are preferred both because they are less expensive to employ than men are and because their gender socialization and inexperience with labor unions presumably make them more docile and less easy to organize,” (Mattingly, 74)
•“Among the ironies of the maquiladora program is
that, although it was intended to provide jobs for men, women were preferred for assembly jobs,” (Mattingly, 79)
•In the beginning, young, single, childless women
workers were preferred to work in the factories. However, over the years… •“Married mothers made better workers because they were more mature, reliable, and less apt to jump from job Maquilapolis: City of Factories http://media.argentina.indymedia.org/uploads/2007/09/mexico-maquiladora-1.jpgmid.jpg
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