Work and Health in Export Industries at National Borders

Denman, Catalina A.; Cedillo, Leonor; Harlow, Sioḃán D.

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195150865.003.010

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“…These negative impacts are especially, but not only, visible in the maquiladoras (assembly plants) located in the U.S.-Mexico border. For a full discussion of those phenomena, see Salas [41], Williams and Homedes [42], or Denman and Cedillo [43]. To put it simply, the process of reorganizing the economy not only allowed less expensive goods and services to be exported from developing countries to affluent, industrialized ones, like the United States, but it also opened economies, like the Mexican, to massive imports of all sorts of goods from even lower-cost producers, effectively breaking down the organic links between domestic industries constructed during more than one-half century of inward-looking development.…”

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Work and Health in the Global Economy: Lessons from Developing and Industrialized Countries on the Impact of Work on Health

Siqueira¹,

Lemus²,

Levenstein³

2002

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Occupational and environmental health are dependent on the decisions made about the production of goods and services: the quality of our lives in the community and workplace and our well-being as workers, residents, and citizens are profoundly influenced by the technology employed in producing "our way of life." We seek to understand the system of decision making about the use of humans and the natural environment in production; we want to know who is sitting at the table where decisions are taken and what drives their decisions; and we want to know how ordinary people can take their appropriate place at the table, so that they can protect their health and well-being. The global economy is not what it seems: a mythology has been created about globalization in which the marketplace is the only reality and nations and national identity--human agency--play only a minor role.

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Section: The Political Economy Of Mexicomentioning

confidence: 99%