Global value chains in the auto industry: a developmentalist illusion or development of underdevelopment in Mexico

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  • Mateo Crossa Niell Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México

Abstract

Although the notion of global value chains (GVC) has been useful to understand the global reproduction of transnational corporations, it was also appropriated for the academic sphere of social science and international institutions such as OECD, World Bank, IMF and IDB to present it as a unique opportunity for underdeveloped countries to pull out of their backward conditions. This paper uses the case of Mexico to illustrate that the extended articulation of the Mexican economy to GVC has not signified a push to an endogenous consolidation, nor has it cemented the bases for the construction of a truly development path. On the contrary, it shows that the maquiladora-export pattern of capital reproduction structured through the protagonist role of the export automotive industry has implied an increasing monopolization of the most important economic activities by transnational corporations, technology exclusion and extended labor force precariousness.

Keywords: Mexico, global value chains, maquiladora export pattern of capital reproduction, underdevelopment, super-exploitation.

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Author Biography

Mateo Crossa Niell, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México

Licenciado en Psicología Social por la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Maestro en Estudios Latinoamericanos por el Programa de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, doctorante en Estudios Latinoamericanos por el Programa de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México y Estudios del Desarrollo por la Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas

 

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2017-06-01

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Crossa Niell, M. (2017). Global value chains in the auto industry: a developmentalist illusion or development of underdevelopment in Mexico. Cuadernos De Economía Crítica, 3(6), 71-100. Retrieved from https://www.sociedadeconomiacritica.org/ojs/index.php/cec/article/view/215

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Vol. 3 No. 6 (2017): Número 6

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