David Bacon Stories & Photographs
Mexico
Rebellion on the Border

10 Working at Plasticos Bajacal
Tijuana
A young worker pulls plastic parts from a plastic molding machine which will be assembled into coathangers for the garment industry, in the Tijuana maquiladora of Plasticos Bajacal. Workers tried unsuccessfully to organize an independent, democratic union there in 1993.

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