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Title: Thinking Critically, "When Globalization Comes Home: Maquiladoras South of the B Post by: colleen on Nov 16, 2012 Thinking Critically, "When Globalization Comes Home: Maquiladoras South of the Border," compares the low wages in assembly-for-export factories in Mexico to the wages earned by other Mexicans, citizens in other Latin American countries, and individuals in the United States. Why is this situation so difficult to correct?
Title: Re: Thinking Critically, "When Globalization Comes Home: Maquiladoras South of the B Post by: ThePsychic on Nov 17, 2012 Americans make as much as $30 and hour, some even more, for the same work performed by Mexicans in the maquiladoras. Mexican workers in the maquiladoras make $4 a day. Compared to what other Mexicans and many people in other Latin American countries make, this is a high salary. If workers demand higher wages, the corporations simply move their factories to areas where the workers will accept lower wages. The overall problem involves very high levels of inequality among people in different countries and among people within the same country. If greater equality existed, corporations would have little incentive to relocate their factories, and workers would have more power in their relationships with employers.
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