Juliana
So and Garrett Brown
“Maquiladoras in Latin America and China — The Interaction of Export
Processing Zones on Women Workers in Asia and the Americas”
Juliana
So of the Chinese Working Women Network and Garrett Brown of
the Maquiladora Health and Safety Support Network will describe
the impact of economic globalization on the lives of young
women workers in the maquiladoras of Mexico and Central America
and in the giant export factories of southern China. Accompanying
the talks will be a slide show of photographs taken inside
several sports shoe and garment factories in China and Guatemala
run by Korean and Taiwanese contractors for “name brand” transnationals
producing shoes and garments of the U.S. market.
Juliana
So is Project Coordinator for the Chinese Working Women network
and coordinates the independent non-governmental organization’s
activities in southern China. These include an office and social
center for young migrant workers in Nansham; a mobile van providing
information on worker health issues which visits four industrial
towns in the Pearl River Delta; and a workers information center
attached to the main occupational disease hospital in Guangzhou,
China.
Garrett
Brown is Coordinator of the Maquiladora Health & Safety
Support Network, a volunteer network of 400 occupational health
professionals in Canada, Mexico and the U.S. The MHSSN has
been providing information, technical assistance and Spanish-language
trainings to maquila workers and their community-based organizations
on the U.S.–Mexico border since 1993.
Visit
the Maquiladora Health and
Safety Support Network website.
Friday,
November 21, 12:00 – 2:00 p.m.
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Analysis
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