Desempeño laboral de las maquiladoras. Una evaluación de la seguridad en el trabajo

• Main Authors: Óscar F. Contreras, Jorge Carrillo, Humberto García, Jaime Olea M.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: El Colegio de la Frontera Norte 2006-01-01
• Series: Frontera Norte
• Subjects: 1; maquiladoras; 2; labor´s safety and health; 3; labor standards; 4; transnationalcorporations; 5; northern mexico
• Online Access: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=13603503
• ISSN: 0187-7372; 2594-0260

Within the context of the debate about the impacts of maquiladora plants established in Mexico, this essay shows empirical evidence about its labour performance and specifical-ly on the subject of occupational safety and health. The plot upholds that maquiladoraplants have a better performance than the non maquiladora companies since they presenthigher fulfilling levels of norms and regulations so as lower accidents rates. Amongmaquiladora companies, the ones that belong to transnational corporations reveal a betterperformance.