History in the Making – Dormitories, Strikes and Beauty Pageants: Gendered Labor Regimes in Taiwan and Mexico’s Export Industries (Dr. Gabriel Antonio Solis, Fellow, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Faculty of Arts Conference Room, 4.36, 4/F Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, University of Hong KongIn the early 1970s, global manufacturers rushed to Taiwan and the U.S.-Mexico Border to take advantage of new export-industrial zones. Mexico’s maquiladora industry and Taiwan’s Export Processing Zones promised transnational firms “an investor’s paradise,” with duty-free manufacturing zones, cheap utilities, and most importantly, access to local “low-cost” women workers as a readily available labor source. Yet while […]
