Maquiladora Research Paper
Secondly, feminism is needed worldwide because of the extreme issues that are happening in other states. These are issues that are brought daily into national and international news. There are so many countries that don’t treat women equal to men, mostly because of their traditions but also for financial benefit as in China with the female dominated workforce. However they don’t have the majority in the workforce because of women rights but on the contrary to exploit both women and men. China is not the only country that “prefer” women to work in factories many countries do this including Mexico. Once again I had never paid attention to the maquiladoras that are just across the border where I have family members that work in some of them.
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My cousin and her husband have to pay rent, bills, buy food for them and their three year-old daughter, and they have to manage with the 600 pesos and whatever, if lucky, Luis earned working on a day by day basis. My cell phone bill alone is $85.00, which is almost double a person earns in a week, working in a maquiladora for an American company. I ask myself, do they, the Mexican government, not acknowledge that this could be one of the major factors why the country is suffering from poverty? I read in an article by Suzanne Bergeron, “…because labor markets are beyond the control of the national community and this women’s interest at this level, it is the global community that must come to a collective decision about regulating labor markets through global governance,” I sort of found it as a response to my previous question to the Mexican government. The maquiladoras that are in Mexico are working for mainly American companies that search for cheap labour, so now, why doesn’t the global community, lets just say the United Nations, formulate regulations that prevent exploitations on women and men for that matter and provide with better working conditions? The companies are already working internationally, so why not have guidelines for the actual employees that are
My cousin and her husband have to pay rent, bills, buy food for them and their three year-old daughter, and they have to manage with the 600 pesos and whatever, if lucky, Luis earned working on a day by day basis. My cell phone bill alone is $85.00, which is almost double a person earns in a week, working in a maquiladora for an American company. I ask myself, do they, the Mexican government, not acknowledge that this could be one of the major factors why the country is suffering from poverty? I read in an article by Suzanne Bergeron, “…because labor markets are beyond the control of the national community and this women’s interest at this level, it is the global community that must come to a collective decision about regulating labor markets through global governance,” I sort of found it as a response to my previous question to the Mexican government. The maquiladoras that are in Mexico are working for mainly American companies that search for cheap labour, so now, why doesn’t the global community, lets just say the United Nations, formulate regulations that prevent exploitations on women and men for that matter and provide with better working conditions? The companies are already working internationally, so why not have guidelines for the actual employees that are