Asimetrías regionales, modelo exportador y despotismo laboral:
el caso de las maquilas de autopartes en México.
Keywords:
regional asymmetry, automotive industry, labor despotism, MexicoAbstract
This article aims to contribute to the critical analysis of the automotive industry in Mexico, placing special emphasis on the link that exists between the dependent and subordinate productive configuration and the configuration of the labor process taking place on the factory floor. By making this articulation, it shows, firstly, that Mexico's dependent insertion into the North American auto production chains occurs as a result of an unequal technical and wage division in which the strategic links in innovation and high technological content are concentrated in the United States, while the links of the productive chain poorest in generating added value and most labor intensive are concentrated in Mexico. Secondly, it shows that the place that this asymmetric, unequal and dependent condition under which the Mexico-US automotive complex is deployed has concrete and differentiated impacts on the organization of the work process of the auto parts maquilas in Mexico, tending to generalize Depostic labor process organizational model.
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