In the mid-1960s the Mexican government launched the Maquiladora Program. This program was meant to bring jobs to Mexico’s unemployed workers who lost their jobs when the Bracero Program was discontinued. The Bracero Program basically allowed Mexican agricultural workers to work legally in the United States and once it ended, many workers found themselves unemployed by the US-Mexican Border. The Maquiladora Program brought in Maquiladora factories in which certain materials and equipment produced in the factory can be imported on a duty-free and tariff-free basis. The Maquiladoras were very enticing for US companies when they were first introduced, but once the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect the number of Maquiladora factories rose even more. The 2006 Film “Maquilapolis: City of Factories” by Sergio De La Torre and Vicky Funari gives us an inside look on…show more content… We see throughout the Maquiladora film and the NAFTA article that due to the world getting so much smaller, cheap labor is so easy to get. With so many third world countries out there and with such large populations, companies are able to treat workers as if they are another object to them. Third world countries need these jobs so badly that they are willing to look the other way if workers and the environment are treated unfairly and with the growing competition between these countries, the worker can almost be treated like a slave. With the growth of globalization and cheap labor, Marx’s words can really be related to todays world. In my opinion nothing can solve this but time. There will always be a need for cheap labor until the age of robotics finally comes around and factories will exclusively use robots to produce their products. Globalization has so far led to good things and bad things and as Kofi Anan, a Ghanaian diplomat has said “arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of
