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Maquilapolis: City of Factories

Women workers in Tijuana’s assembly factories tell their stories as they work to carve out lives of agency in a new and complicated century, revealing the transformation of a city and its people by globalization.

Series

POV, Global Voices

Premiere Date

October 10, 2006

Length

60 minutes

Funding Type

Co-Production

Women workers in Tijuana's assembly factories tell their stories, revealing the transformation of a city and its people by globalization. Factory worker Carmen Durán and her colleagues describe environmental devastation, infrastructural chaos, and violations of human and labor rights as they work to transform their world and carve out lives of agency in a new and complicated century.