Manquiladoras

     As the countries started developing there was more labor jobs available and were opening more jobs for local workers.  The development of manquiladora which were an assembly plant buying foreign product to make cheap goods.  The whole purpose of the manquiladoras were to increase capital from foreign buyers.  The goods were brought from China since there cheaper but then the end product was shipped to the broader states of the United States of America.

    The manquiladoras were not just located in Mexico but all over the Latin America’s.  As time progressed many of these manufacture owners were criticized for their long hours and horrible working condition they gave their workers. Even though these factories were giving women chance to work at the sometime they did not have many rights.  One common thing that occurred was when they got pregnant they were automatically getting fired.  Which in the long run is when the women really need to have a job to they can support their family.

     During the later half of the sixties, maquiladora industries rapidly expanded geographically and economically and by 1985, had become Mexico’s second largest source of income from exports, behind oil.  Since 1973, maquiladoras have also accounted for nearly half of Mexico’s export assembly.  Between 1995 and 2000, exports of assembled products in Mexico tripled, and the rate of the industry’s growth amounted to about one new factory per day. By the late twentieth century, the industry accounted for 25 percent of Mexico’s gross domestic product, and 17 percent of total Mexican employment.

    Due to early established maquiladors it effect of labor law in Mexican corporation, and it must be recognized that the impact is significant. Labor rights are enshrined in the Mexican Constitution. The Federal Labor Law, which implements the constitutional guarantees, is a comprehensive statute that attempts to regulate all aspects of a labor relationship, whether individual or collective. It is applicable to all Mexican companies, whether foreign or Mexican owned, with or without a maquila program.

              
             Since globalization and physical                   restructuring have contributed to                   the competition and advent of low-                 cost offshore assembly in places such             as China, and countries in Central                   America, maquiladoras in Mexico                   have been on the decline since 2000:             According to federal sources,                           approximately 529 maquiladoras                     shut down and investment in                             assembly plants decreased by 8.2                     percent in 2002. Despite the decline,                 over 3,000 maquiladoras still exist                       along the 2,000 mile-long United                         States– Mexico border, providing                     employment for    

           approximately one million workers, and              importing more than $51 billion in                        supplies into Mexico. Research indicates            that maquiladoras' post-NAFTA growth              is connected to changes in Mexican                    wages relative to those in Asia and in                  the United States, and to fluctuations in              U.S. industrial production.  As of 2006,                maquiladoras still account for 45                         percent of Mexico’s exports.                                             Maquiladoras, in general, are best                         represented among operations that are              particularly assembly intensive.  Which              has helped many Latin America                            countries with their income throughout               the years of their development.

          Reference:
          http://www.sandiego.gov/economic-development/sandiego/trade/mexico/maquiladoras.shtml
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