Some maquiladora operators have admitted a preference for women also because women often display a greater level of patience and higher dexterity than men in performing the repetitive work of an assembly plant.

Some have argued that maquiladora employment enables women to make their own money and thus become more independent, while teaching them new skills and giving them more opportunities that they may not otherwise acquire.

Many of the murder victims in Ciudad Juarez have been maquiladora employees.

While most people who were employed under the original Bracero Program were men, the majority of maquiladora employees are young women.

Opponents of this allegation argue that women are paid higher wages working in a maquiladora than they commonly would in other forms of employment in northern Mexico.

In this public intervention, women working in the “ maquiladora ” industry of Tijuana, Mexico wore media technology designed to project their faces onto El Centro Cultural as they spoke emotionally of incest, police abuse, and work place discrimination in real time.

A maquiladora manufacturer operates by importing raw materials into Mexico either tariff free ( NAFTA ) or at a reduced rate on a temporary basis ( 18 months ) and then using Mexico's relatively less expensive labor costs to produce finished goods for export.

Major industries include livestock, petroleum and natural gas production, textiles such as cotton, grain and because of its proximity to the Mexican border, the maquiladora industry.

The introduction of the maquiladora economy and the North American Free Trade Association led to a boom in international trade, cross-border commerce with Mexico and health care.

In the mid-1980s, fueled by trade and the growth of the maquiladora ( in which components are shipped to Mexico, assembled and shipped back ), things began to pick up in Hidalgo County.

During the later half of the sixties, maquiladora industries rapidly expanded geographically and economically and by 1985, had become Mexico ’ s second largest source of income from foreign exports, behind oil.

Mexico possesses a strong system of labor laws, yet enforcement of these laws within the maquiladora industry is often lax.

" A Canadian network promoting solidarity with groups in Mexico, Central America, Africa, and Asia organizing in maquiladora factories and export processing zones to improve conditions and win a living wage.

In the film, Ana, a fake Mayan art smuggler, and Aurelia, a maquiladora worker, flee from Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua in Northern Mexico and those who pursue them to Cancún in the Yucatán peninsula province of Quintana Roo.

The industrial sector has shifted since 1993 from a primarily domestic orientation to include free zone ( maquiladora ) manufacturing for export.

The Honduran maquiladora sector, the third-largest in the world, continued its strong performance in 2000, providing employment to over 120, 000 and generating more than $ 528 million in foreign exchange for the country.

The maquiladora, or assembly industry, was a growth industry in the generally bleak economy.

The solutions relied on in the past — traditional export crops, the maquiladora assembly industry, and 1980s ' development schemes — appear unlikely to provide enough new jobs for a rapidly growing population.

Contrary to popular belief, the maquiladora program was in place far before NAFTA, in some sense dating all the way back to 1965.

Prior to NAFTA maquiladora companies importing raw materials from anywhere in the world were given preferencial tariff rates by the Mexican government so long as the finished good was for export.

NAFTA has eliminated all tariffs on goods between the two countries, but for the maquiladora industry significantly increased the tariff rates for goods sourced outside of NAFTA.

Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora, are home to one of the largest maquiladora clusters.

A maquiladora () or maquila () is the Mexican name for manufacturing operations in a free trade zone ( FTZ ), where factories import material and equipment on a duty-free and tariff-free basis for assembly, processing, or manufacturing and then export the assembled, processed and / or manufactured products, sometimes back to the raw materials ' country of origin.

The term maquiladora, in the Spanish language, refers to the practice of millers charging a maquila, or " miller's portion " for processing other people's grain.

Recent research indicates that the maquiladora industry has an impact on U. S. border city employment in service sectors.

Although the maquiladora industry suffered due to the early 2000s recession, maquiladoras constituted 54 % of the US-Mexico trade in 2004, and by 2005, the maquiladora exports accounted for half of Mexico's exports.

Many states have laws regulating the use of boat trailers and some have restrictions regarding the age of motor boat operators.

Now we have Af or Af and all four of these operators commute with one another.

Of course, since we are dealing with fermions, we have to have the operators satisfy canonical anti-commutation relations.

This is because E ( k ) can have any sign whatsoever, and the combination of creation and annihilation operators has expectation value 1 or 0.

Since 31 December 2003, the system has been closed to new users, at that time, it covered 100 % of the Spanish population, but now some antennas have been given to GSM operators.

Most public or private buses and coaches, once they have reached the end of their service with one or more operators, are sent to the wrecking yard for breaking up for scrap and spare parts.

Nevertheless, UK rail operators point out that rail fare increases have been at a substantially lower rate than petrol prices for private motoring.

In North America, Australia and Europe many cable operators have already introduced cable telephone service, which operates just like existing fixed line operators.

More recently, several US cable operators have begun offering wireless services to their subscribers.

Other Tier 1 cable operators, including Comcast, have announced trials of a similar service in sections of the US Northeast.

For example, if an office has two telephone operators who are both busy all the time, that would represent two erlangs ( 2 E ) of traffic ; or a radio channel that is occupied for one hour continuously is said to have a load of 1 Erlang.

In particular, starting in 2006 a number of operators such as Fantazzle, 365FantasySports, DraftZone, Fanduel and Snapdraft have offered daily draft games where players can draft, play and win ( or lose ) within a single day.

Many councils also have their own bus operators, such as Tampere City Transit ( TKL ), which operates some bus lines on a commercial basis in competition with privately owned providers.

Hydrofoils are still considered exotic by many commercial operators of high-speed craft and many will not take the risk of trying such exotic vessels when they have no experience operating them.

According to the CIA, with the dissolution of Somalia's formal banking system, many informal money transfer operators have arisen to fill the void.

The first operating systems for IBM computers were written by IBM customers who did not wish to have their very expensive machines ($ 2M USD in the mid-1950s ) sitting idle while operators set up jobs manually.

According to the INTERCAL manual, " the aim in designing INTERCAL was to have no precedents ", supposedly neither in flow control features, nor in data manipulation operators.

Nevertheless there have been radiation related deaths and injury amongst workers of such facilities, many of them caused by the operators themselves overriding the interlocks.

Since the early 1940s, Kingman Reef has had very little human contact, though amateur radio operators from around the world have occasionally visited the reef to put it " on the air " in what is known as a DX-pedition.

Both operators have three binding sites for cI: OL1, OL2, and OL3 for P < sub > L </ sub >, and OR1, OR2 and OR3 for P < sub > R </ sub >.

While the Moroccan telecoms market remains under-saturated, its three mobile operators have experienced robust growth in recent years, both at home and abroad.

Individual operators would also have had no more right than any other private company for their " advertisement " to appear on traffic signs, whereas the double arrow was already prescribed for indicating a " railway station ".