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The basic concept behind the maquiladora system is that a United States company relocates one or several of its manufacturing plants to a third world country or just simply a country that is not as wealthy as the United States. They are relocated to a country where it can operate at a very low operational cost compared to operating in the United States. The reason that they are able to do this is, because the value of currency of those third world countries dose not compare to the value of the U.S. dollar. (Vargas, pg.34) The United States dollar is a very powerful currency through out the world. Since Mexico’s peso is amongst the weakest currency, companies traded their dollars for pesos. Pesos that are then utilize to pay workers and any other expenses. Then the products that they manufacture are sold for dollars here in the states, increasing profits by huge margins wherever the local currency falls.

Now, since the U.S. businesses bring in more than 3 billion dollars to the Mexican economy, the Mexican state would naturally ably to what these companies want. Since Mexico has had a huge foreign debt, the U.S. has used this as a weapon in order to make Mexican government do what ever it needs them to do. Like Cockcroft explains, “Foreign loans and Mexico’s foreign debt became bargaining chips for foreign capitalist influence.” (Mexico’s Hope, p142). This simply means that foreign corporations could have an influence in Mexico’s economy, because the state owes a lot of money to the foreign corporation’s country. Do to this big debt problem the Mexican state has usually taken advice from the foreign capital and imperialist state. These advices are usually not in the best interest of the Mexican people. Usually the foreign investor’s advice benefits the increase of production of goods for foreign businesses. One prime example, of how the foreign capital has influence the Mexican

inexhaustible supply of new females, anxious to fill any vacancies that appear with great regularity” (Nauman p.2). As a matter of fact the U.S. businesses rely heavily on the Mexican state to allow such mistreatment of their people; because women in the maquiladora system bring in huge profit. Studies have shown that in 1995, the contribution women made for foreign business was estimated at $11 trillion a year. (Naumn p.1) Naturally with huge profits like this, these corporations are not going to stop the maquiladora system or better the conditions for their workers. But to better the poverty of women in the maquiladora system both countries the U.S. and Mexico must change their policies.

e health, poverty, economic issues, and some possible solutions to these labor systems. I will not limit my self to any one topic because I fell that there is so much more that is just as important. These industries that implement this maquiladora system are simple exploiting our people. I will also include a brief history of the maquiladora system and facts illustrating how and why it was created. It is essential; to better understand this system of cheap labor, to include history. Poverty caused by these maquiladora systems and the roll that politics plays are topics that must be discussed as well.

own people. Statistics show that minimum wage have fallen since the 1980. If not the value of el peso has fallen but the wages did not increase. What this does is that the prices of food and basic living necessities have gone up, so women earning low wages could not afford to purchase that much food to feed their families. According to Cockcroft, “In 1997, a women earning minimum wage could buy less than a third of what the same pesos might have bought in 1980” (p. 155). Diana Wilson also agrees that the depreciation of el peso has worsened the lives of maquiladora women workers. In the article “Maquildoras: Success story for the labor Force?” she states “Maquildora wages do not provide a living wage; and, concerning the distribution o

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