Firms from core capitalist countries enter developing countries to establish assembly plants that take advantage of low wage rates, often within special export-processing zones created by sympathetic governments. The demand for factory workers strengthens local labor markets and weakens traditional productive relations.
Much of the labor demanded is female, however, and the resulting feminization of the workforce limits opportunities for men; but since the new factory work is demanding and poorly paid, women tend only to work a few years, after which time they leave to look for new opportunities.
The insertion of foreign-owned factories into peripheral regions thus undermines the
peasant economy by producing goods that compete with those made locally; by feminizing the workforce without providing factory-based employment opportunities for men; and by socializing women for industrial work and modem consumption, albeit without providing a lifetime income capable of meeting
these needs. The result is the creation of a population that is socially and economically uprooted and prone to migration.