Maquiladoras are “ Factories boomed in the 1980s as anomalies in the Mexican enterprise system. Maquiladoras are 100 percent foreign-owned (mostly US). Companies can import components duty free, use low-cost labor for assembly, and then export finished products to the US, paying minimal duties”0. Maquiladoras may help the mexican economy as well as supplying a surplus of jobs but there’s also a downside. They pay their employees very little while the employees work long hours while performing rigorous task throughout the day. Branigin state's, “In the maquiladoras, Mexican workers typically earn in a day what U.S. workers make in an hour. The maquiladoras have succeeded in holding wages down to about $1.25 an hour, which is still about 20
