Maquila workers in Ciudad Juárez. CHRISTIAN PALMA A similar scene is taking place in the border town of Ciudad Juárez, the heart of Mexico’s low-cost processing and assembly plants located in duty-free zones and known popularly as maquilas . In this labor-intensive sector, robots have also started to take over production processes that until recently required manpower.
Automation poses one of the biggest threats to jobs in the 21 st century. But the Mexican case is particularly painful because of its growth model, in which competitive wages play a key role.
This makes the rise of automation technology every bit as […]
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