Mexico Maquila Employment
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The perspectives of Sklair, Wilson, and Kraul with respect to maquila employment and how it is changing Mexico stand pretty much in contrast to each other. Sklair points out how little has changed since the late 1980s for the maquila industry, but she points out “the economic, political, and ideological conditions under which it operates are undergoing dramatic changes” (384). Capitalism’s success around the globe has shifted ideologies with respect to liberalized trade, conflict, and economic and cultural barriers. Sklair is a champion of NAFTA and supports the contention that Mexico has the potential to become a “Korea but with an even wider industrial base” (385). Low wages and a low peso against the dollar make Mexico ideal for foreign investors. However, increasing free trade agreements and congealing ideologies between the Mexico and the U.S. will not have any significant impact on the maquila industry according to Sklair (385) because “the operation of the maquila industry under present conditions is more of less functionally equivalent to a free trade agreement for the U.S.-Mexico border region.” In her evaluation of six criteria of impact on the maquila industry, Sklair takes a rosy view of the future and seldom critiques living or working conditions in overrun border cities plagued by massive immigration from push factors that drive many Mexicans to the borders in search of work, “There is agreement that mo
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Mexican economy.” With such integration comes greater benefits for workers, more benefits for the host country, and more power and influence for the industry as a whole.
QUESTION THREE
There are a variety of theories that attempt an explanation of occupational segregations, from human capital theory to discrimination theory. In Gender & Racial Inequality at Work, Tomaskovic-Devey discusses some classical and neoclassical theories on occupation segregation. He does so as a means of undermining them in order to demonstrate what he believes is his own, more valid, theory, that of status closure.
According to the author, “Job-level segregation by sex and race...continues to be the norm rather than the exception” in the U.S. workplace (Tomaskovic-Devey 19). White men still retain the power and advantages of the workplace, including higher pays, higher level positions, and greater power and status than women or minorities. While the author argues that change in the U.S. workplace with respect to inequality will take reeducation and redirection efforts as well as structural changes in the organization, he also contends that supply-side models and new structuralism models are incorrect in their explanation of occupational segre
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Approximate Word count = 1653
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page)
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