ABSTRACT
Mexico's economic crisis includes an unstable currency of its own plus a high commitment, because of international and foreign bank loans, to accept foreign currency. Thus the country's development policy will probably depend, perhaps increasingly, on corporations oriented to foreign capital, multinational labor, and exported products. A greater danger to the national, especially the border, industry comes from the demand of maquila agents that their companies be allowed not only to produce in Mexico for export, but also to sell a percentage of their production within Mexico. That females remain the priority labor force for the export maquila is seen in the 1982-1983 study, which shows figures of 93.8 percent women and 6.2 percent men. The social sector and the female workers of Ciudad Juarez are aware of the problems of the Sierra of the State of Mexico, of the Sierra of the State of Puebla and of the Sierra of the State of Guerrero.
