3/10/2024 0 Comments Film impact torrentIn Maquilapolis, undertaxed and under-regulated factories operated by multinational corporations - usually through local middlemen - pollute residential neighborhoods with seeming impunity. This daily $11 does not buy them the protection and aid of their local and national governments. It's a place where poverty is so deep that workers are expected to be grateful for the high-end $11 a day they might earn, to give up hope of ever earning more or of ever seeking better working conditions. Where factory workers find bathroom breaks are few, toxins are many, and the pressure - and intimidation - are always on. Where it takes about two hours to earn a gallon of milk. Welcome to the world of Maquilapolis, a border city where it takes an hour of drudgework inside a poisonous factory to earn enough to buy a jug of potable water. Maquilapolis: City of Factories takes its name and stores from the maquiladoras, the multinational assembly plants that sprang up south of the U.S.-Mexican border starting in the mid-1960s.
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