A production line in RCA Thomson, one of the first Cd. Juárez maquiladoras, established in the 1960s. The women work eight hours a day and often more. They earn the equivalent of about $4.50 a day. Many of them are single mothers who must leave their children alone while they work.


Photograph © Gabriel Cardona from the publication Juárez: The Laboratory of Our Future © Aperture, 1998

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