POV - Maquilapolis: City of Factories | PBS

Just over the border in Mexico is an area peppered with maquiladoras: massive factories often owned by the world's largest multinational corporations. Carmen and Lourdes work at maquiladoras in Tijuana, where each day they confront labor violations, environmental devastation and urban chaos.

"Maquilapolis: City of Factories" premiered on the P.O.V. series on Oct. 10, 2006.

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• maquiladora
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• humanrights

[kilwi389]

Such a great documentary. I saw it today.

Super buen documentario. Hoy lo vi.

[fickeylin]

Write down Hitachi workers (in Search) to watch what's going on with Hitachi maquiladora in Guadalajara. Saludos.

[fickeylin]

Gracias por compartir este video. Los invito a visitar otro video sobre los trabajadores de Hitachi en Guadalajara, México. Pueden escribir Hitachi Workers y ver el video.

[000FoxSnake000]

This one looks interesting