How to Use maquiladora in a Sentence

maquiladora

noun

• For starters, call center jobs pay more than construction or maquiladora work.
  — Gustavo Solis, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2019
• For decades almost every maquiladora in Juárez was owned by a U.S. company.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 21 Oct. 2017
• A. Rosarito’s maquiladoras depend on trade with the U.S.
  — Peter Rowe, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 June 2017
• Wages at most maquiladora jobs are double or triple the country’s minimum wage, which is currently less than $5 a day.
  — Santiago Pérez, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2018
• Many have gone to cities to work in heavy industry or the maquiladoras—factories run by foreign companies—near the border.
  — Erik Loomis, The New Republic, 14 Mar. 2018
• Even the slightest upward adjustment to wages in the maquiladoras or tweak in labor laws could threaten the industry’s advantages.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 21 Oct. 2017
• But the challenge for these countries—as for any hinterland reliant on supplying labour to produce goods for richer neighbours, maquiladora-style—is to keep closing the income gap.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• Distilleries called maquiladoras — some of which produce award-winning tequilas — produce tequilas for brand owners, says Morales.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 19 Oct. 2018
• The industry is also critically important to the U.S.; for example, nearly every pacemaker sewn into the hearts of Americans is assembled in a maquiladora.
  — Denise Davidsonwriter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2019
• Wang’s parents left Taiwan to run the family electronics manufacturing business in a Mexican maquiladora plant.
  — Jeanette Steele, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 Jan. 2018
• The borderlands were buzzing with factories known as maquiladoras — plants that assemble components for American manufacturing operations.
  — Peter S. Goodman, Keith Bradsher and Neil Gough, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2017
• The artist recruited artisans from Michoacán, Mexico – where the annual Monarch migration dramatically terminates – to form a kind of cross-border maquiladora (manufacturing facility).
  — George Fishman, miamiherald, 13 July 2018

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