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![screen capture, Google entry for "The Maquiladora Reader" ... workers in the maquiladoras have orgnanized themselves ... The Maquiladora Reader brings us ... life on the Mexico-US border ... never reducing women workers to mere ... www.afsc.org/maquiladora.htm - 9 k - Cached - Similar pages. (Indent with red arrow pointing to next entry) Maquiladora flyer ... States, maquiladoras would most likely be called sweatshops. There are close to a million maquiladora workers in Mexico. Many of them are girls and young women ... www.afsc.org/border/maquila.htm - 9k - Cached - Similar pages [More results from www.afsc.org]](../../Images/searchenginetutorial/why/google5afsc1.gif)
![screen capture, "A Fair Deal" AFSC helps Mexican maquiladora workers fight injustice. [SIDEBAR] IN THE MAQUILADORAS, DIGNITY MEANS ... Fair wages, A safe workplace, A healthy community, Freedom from discrimination, An end to sweatshop abuses. On the Mexico-U.S. border, the American Friends Service Committee helps maquiladora workers fight for that kind of ... [MAIN BODY] Maquiladoras: foreign-owned assembly plants in Mexico. More than half of them are subsidiaries of U.S. firms. Paty Leyva feels the slap of indignity on a daily basis. "More and more, we are being forced to comply with extreme production quotas," said Paty, a worker at Carrizo Manufacturing, a Mexican subcontrator for the U.S. apparel industry. "Then they don't provide us with glasses and masks to protect our eyes and throats from the dust." Paty was one of four maquiladora workers who traveled to Washington, D.C., in April 1998. There, they met with nine members of Congress and a dozen congressional staffers who wanted to learn more about working and living ...](../../Images/searchenginetutorial/why/google5afsc.gif)
![screen capture, "A Fair Deal", continued. The AFSC's efforts also include the following: sponsoring research and training to broaden understanding of the health effects for both workers and their communities caused by the rapid proliferation of maquiladora plants; highlighting rampant sex discrimination in maquiladoras; serving as a resource to researchers, elected officials, reporters, and others who visit maquiladoras. By taking a binational approach, the AFSC is helping U.S. audiences to understand that supporting maquiladora workers also helps working people in the United States and around the world. Such connections are increasingly vital as more companies road the globe seeking to lower production costs with cheaper labor and fewer environmental protections. [circled in red with an arrow pointing to it] Also, be sure to see The Maquiladora Reader: Cross-Border Organizing Since NAFTA. [line and links to:] AFSC Home, Contact Us, Site Map, About AFSC, News, Jobs & Volunteering, How to Contribute, Program Topics, Where We Work, Upcoming Events, What's New, Periodicals/Newsletters, Resources & Links](../../Images/searchenginetutorial/why/google5afsc5.gif)
![screen capture, "The Maquiladora Reader: Cross-Border Organizing Since Nafta" [image of book's front cover], Globalization is one of the most talked-about phenomena of the 1990s, but little information is available on how those who are most involved - the communities and working people affected by globe-trotting corporations - are responding to its challenges. The Maquiladora Reader explores how grassroots activists are facing one of the most important trends in the globalizatin of production: the proliteration of maquiladoras, the foreigh - (mostly U.S.-) owned assembly plants along the Mexico-U.S. border. Through more than two dozen readings culled from a variety of sources, The Maquiladora Reader reveals the determination and creativity of maquiladora workers as they seek to improve their wages and working conditions, protect their communities from health and environmental hazards, and build cross-border relationships with unions, religious groups, community organizations, and others. [Quotation] We are not here for people to say, "look at these poor Mexican workers, their wages are so low." Or, "look at those poor U.S. workers, all their jobs are going to Mexico." We are here to develop effective international strategies so we can overcome these problems. -- Julia Quinonez, quoted in The Maquiladora Reader](../../Images/searchenginetutorial/why/google5afsc3.gif)
