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This program discusses free trade zones and the problems they have wrought in human terms. Filmed on location in Sri Lanka, El Salvador, Mexico, and Morocco, it exposes companies that pay little in taxes; exploit cheap labor, especially women; and reap significant profits by selling the products at high prices in other parts of the world. The program also reveals human rights abuses common to free trade zones, including workers being locked in factories overnight, mass firings prompted by worker attempts to unionize, and substandard wages. In Mexico, large farm regions are transformed into makeshift cities, where residents have no social services and pollution has caused an alarming rise in brain damage among newborns. (57 minutes)
