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Chapter. 10 Discussion

Chapter. 10 Discussion

Q Your answer should be from a sociological point of view, not your personal opinion. I am grading for understanding. Why do some corporations choose to set up factories in places like Mexico, Bangladesh, or Indonesia? How do corporations benefit from taking their factories outside of first world industrialized nations? Why might the workers continue working at the factories despite the challenges they face? The short clip below is a clip from the film Maquilapolis: City of Factories (the entire documentary is uploaded on Youtube if any one is interested). The filmmaker gave women in Tijuana cameras to document their lives working at factories that make electronic products like Sony, Panasonic, Sanyo etc. 200 word minimum and Please Respond to two classmates for this discussion assignment.

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Mexico, Bangladesh, or Indonesia are countries that come under middle-income or low-income countries. In these countries the population is huge and jobs are fewer. Unemployment rates are high and literacy rates are low. Poverty in these countries has reached to maximum and women are considered the most affected part of the population by poverty. Therefore, when corporations set up factories in these areas they instantly get cheap labor. They can make people work more in fewer salaries because these people just need a chance to stay afloat.