Matamoros : the human face of globalization /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	San Francisco, CA : Video Project, 2001.
Description:	1 online resource (11 min.)
Language:	English
Subject:	North American Free Trade Agreement -- (1992 December 17) Free trade -- Environmental aspects -- Mexico. Ecology. Globalization. Ecology. Free trade -- Environmental aspects. Globalization. Matamoros (Tamaulipas, Mexico) -- Environmental conditions. Mexico. Mexico. Mexico -- Matamoros (Tamaulipas) Documentaries and Factual Films Documentary films. Documentary films.
Format:	E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13651290

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Other authors / contributors:	Boxall, Amanda, director. Olmos, Edward James, narrator.
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Title from resource description page (viewed April 03, 2017). In English.
Summary:	This video reveals the alarming environmental and human toll of NAFTA, the free trade agreement of the Americas, initiated by the U.S. government, on the border-town, Matamoros, Mexico. Through NAFTA, U.S. companies are encouraged to build factories in border-towns like Matamoros, escaping tough pollution control laws, labor standards, and taxes that pay for social and environmental needs. The people of Matamoros, attracted by the promise of employment, suffer low wages, inadequate housing, poor sanitation and disease, revealing the true human face of globalization.

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