The Global assembly line
Follows the lives of workers, many of them women, in the garment and electronics industries in special export processing zones in Mexico and the Philippines. Explains how, in order to cut manufacturing costs, American corporations have hired workers outside the United States. Notes that working conditions in offshore plants are in general considerably more hazardous than in comparable factories in the United States
Film, English, ©1986
[New Day Films], [Wayne, N.J.], ©1986