The Struggle for Labor Rights on Mexican Maquiladoras María Eugenia de la O Introduction The 1960s, hundreds of foreign assembly factories were established along the Mexico-United States border cities as a result of increasing labor force costs in industrialized nations, and also as an economic strategy of the Mexican government who provided tax incentives, infrastructure and low wages to the new investors. Decades after, in the 1990s, Mexico, Canada and United States signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), consequently thousands of factories -call maquiladoras- be transformed into an important source of foreign investment and jobs to Mexico. Currently there are thousands of maquiladoras in the nation; according to recent
As other industries when to bankrupt, maquiladoras profited. NAFTA, which is the North American Free Trade Agreement, contributed to the expansion of the maquiladora industries in the early 1990s resulting in an increase in the maquiladora job market. When American companies started to set up in large numbers, multi-party democracies began to dominate the northern part of Mexico. With the additional influence of American ideals, Mexico’s maquiladoras have strengthened both cities. In the midst of the early 1990s and early 2000s, the growth between that time span for maquiladoras had an annual average rate of 10%.
What positive changes do you think happened for the Mexican people after NAFTA? A. job opportunities became available for thousands of people, the economy drastically grew, to this day the state of Chihuahua can be named one of the most prosperous states in the Republic of Mexico. 5. What negative changes did you notice happened in
The overall result is the automobile industry was the lighter fluid to the fire that caused the economic boom. The boom lead America that would be beneficial for a life time. In my opinion Henry Ford is the father of the economic boom. Although not all were able to benefit from it, America may not be the same if it never
The Mexican-American war altered the United States environmentally, culturally and politically. First, on February 2, 1848, Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo two years post the beginning of the war. The treaty not only achieved President Polk’s goal to achieve California from Mexico but also granted the U.S. over 500,000 square miles of new territory. The new land caused approximately 90,000 spanish speaking, mostly Catholic Mexicans under American jurisdiction. Second, Nativism, a rising anti-catholic and anti-immigrant deemed the Mexicans inferior.
With tariffs and surtaxes placed on goods, this allowed the three North American countries to trade freely. For Mexico, the NAFTA deal was designed for poor people to not move to the U.S because the economy in Mexico would be stimulated. For Canada this was considered to be a plus for the economy. Jobs were expected to increase, revenues streams flowing into the country expected to soar and the national debt expect to drop significantly. Instead what happened was that many jobs were being lost because foreign companies have moved back to their respective countries.
This helped increase the United States GDP which then led to a growth in jobs. “For NAFTA countries, free trade has been beneficial, not harmful, as the increase in employment demonstrates: 40 million more people are at work now in Canada, Mexico and the United States as compared with 23 years ago at the start of NAFTA”(Milke). Milke analyzes the benefits of NAFTA by comparing past statistics to present day statistics. This is a very eye opening technique because it allows the reader to see how far the trade agreement has come. There are many benefits for countries who seek trading.
The automobile drove the economy. The automobile became one of the most important industries of the nation. The automobile helped stimulate steel, rubber, glass, tool companies, oil corporations, and road construction. The automobile created drive-in movies and drive-in restaurants. People were also creating new consumer goods.
Early after Mexico gained their independence, they were interested in reestablishing trade with the United States after it had been banned by the Spanish (Tindall & Shi, 2013). Opening up trade between Mexico and the United States increased the number of travelers both east and west
The signing of the NAFTA agreement led to a high migration of Mexicans into the United States. Although there were restrictions in the migration process, a lot more people found their way into the US as compared to the time when NAFTA had not been ratified. This move seemed to benefit only the United States. There was a kind of exploitation of the poor Mexicans who went to seek employment opportunities in the American soil. Companies would hire the Mexicans in the lowly placed jobs and underpay them.
In 1973, there was a World Oil Crisis. The OPAEC countries set an oil embargo for political reasons. When they lifted the embargo, the price of oil had risen from $3 per barrel to nearly $12. This greatly benefitted the Mexican economy as Mexico began producing more oil thus generating high revenue from oil exports. The Mexican government continued its expansionary fiscal policy using the oil revenue combined with large loans from foreign banks.
Before NAFTA, Canada and Mexico have already established further trade relationships with United States. The Canadian and American economies started its trade relations concentrating exclusively on the automotive sector. In 1965, Canada and U.S. signed the “Automotive Products Trade Agreement”. Once their economic relations strengthened and solidified, the Auto Pact transformed formally into the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement. This was exactly the FTA that Mexico pursed with these countries.
Additionally, these citizens go to the United States in hopes of earning more money to provide a better life for their families. 2. How has NAFTA affected Mexican farmers? NAFTA has affected Mexican farmers in a negative way, causing a lot of farms and agriculture to be shut down. Further, NAFTA has caused agriculture from the United States to be cheaper, which means that there is no benefit in farming from Mexico.
The Waking and Richard Cory are two poems in different times, places and settings but still similar in many ways. Both these poems have themes of wealth, beauty and the meaning of life. Though the major difference in the theme is the idea of mortality. The Waking by Theodore Roethke and Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson are both poems that use a variety of poetic devices to carry their themes and messages. Richard Cory is a poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson in 1897.
NAFTA took effect in January of 1994.Its main purpose is to increase the agriculture trade and investment among the three countries. According to the department of agriculture, Mexico lost over 900,000 farming jobs in the first decade of NAFTA. ( McKenzie, 2015 ). Before NAFTA people of Mexico grew corn and was able to support their family and country economy. Shortly after NAFTA cheap American corn came pouring in form the borders, which caused a major effect on families that were working in farms in Mexico.
