UID:
almahu_9949568089902882
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 264 pages) :
,
illustrations
ISBN:
9781000914887
,
1000914887
,
9781003307266
,
1003307264
,
9781000914931
,
1000914933
Content:
"How and why Mexico's socioeconomic structure was transformed through plutocratic preferences, US corporate strategies and ideology-all powering transnational processes of neoliberalization-are issues examined in this comprehensive, carefully documented, publication covering four crucial decades of metamorphosis. The causes and consequences of the creation of a new, regional, power bloc-NAFTA-are extensively examined. Readers will benefit from the many important demystifications presented here, chronicling the asymmetric Mexico-US production system. The impacts of the new transnational structure for labor on both sides of the border are matters of centrality. Specialists and general readers alike will find an explicit and accessible account of the powerful forces opening access to, and profiting from millions of low wage workers enabling Mexico to become a strategic source of US imports. Portrayed by mainstream economists and major policy makers as a "win-win" triumph of "free trade" theory, this book documents the opposing reality imposed by NAFTA and the USMCA on both the US and Mexican working classes. US economists foretold a dramatic narrowing of the income gap-the US would benefit; Mexico would benefit even more. But instead, the yawning gap increased for three decades, bringing devastation for workers while debilitating Mexico's national industrial base"--
Note:
The remaking of Mexico : the state, economic elite and US capital 1982-1992 -- From NAFTA to the PAN's implosion : Mexico remade for US TNCS 1992-2012 -- Stagnation & income dispersion sink new PRI and fracture US Labor : 2012-2018 -- López Obrador in power, 2018-2022 : a transformational or conformational moment? -- Export-led accumulation : paradoxes of the leading auto sector -- Petroleum : a strategic resource for Houston's TNCs or Mexico? -- Mining and agriculture : supporting pillars of the transnational structure -- Some final reflections on dependence and asymmetry.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Cypher, James M. Political economy of transnational power and production Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024 ISBN 9781032309170
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781003307266
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003307266
