Nearly a decade before NAFTA’s passage, filmmaker Lorraine W. Gray takes us to the maquiladoras of Juarez, Mexico, to the electronics factories of an export-processing zone in the Philippines, and to shuttered plants in Eastern Tennessee, paying particular attention to how the outsourcing of labor from the U.S. has influenced the lives of young women in the Global South. The visually rich film juxtaposes serious and cheery American businessmen with the dehumanizing conditions created by their decisions and actions, and with the people who suffer as a result of them. In one particularly pointed sequence, a development consultant says that U.S. factories abroad will provide foreign workers with “a better understanding of who we are and what we’re all about.” Such platitudes do little to mask the exploitation at the core of the global assembly line, then and now. A quarter-century after it was made, this prescient film reminds us that when we internationalize work, we tend to lose sight of the workers.  AK