Development and crisis: Geographical industrialization in Coahuila and Mexico-United States economic integration
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| Publicado en: | ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (1994) |
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| Resumen: | Two industrial cities in northern Mexico underwent continuous transformation with the expansion of capitalism in the postwar period. Monclova and Saltillo, Coahuila, suffered contrasting fates during the crisis of the 1980s. The explanation lies in industrial restructuring linked to the reconfiguration of North American capitalism and the increased integration between the Mexican and U.S. economies. The occupation and production of new spaces continue to be vital factors for the growth of capitalism. A framework that draws on theories of uneven development, regions and regional geography, capitalism and territoriality, and neoliberalization and development is useful to approach problems of regional change and industrialization. Uneven and combined capitalist development in Mexico during and after the Second World War sharpened social and regional inequality, expressed in a north-south division of the country's economic geography. The industrial take-off and decline of Monclova was a process of rapid industrialization, modernization and state-led capitalism which culminated in a confrontation between capital and labor and the privatization of the steel industry. Territorial development and geographical industrialization in Saltillo has expressed an evolving relationship between capital and labor and between Mexican and U.S. capital. The growth of local capital and a major confrontation with labor coincided with shifts in the national and international political economy, creating the basis for a qualitatively new stage of capitalist industrialization with the establishment and growth of the General Motors Saltillo-Ramos Arizpe automobile complex in the 1980s. The articulation between the auto industry's needs and state policies strengthened economic integration and transformed the relations of dependency between Mexico and the United States, giving them a new spatial dimension. The case of Coahuila points to a new form of integration between Mexico and the United States in response to crisis. It constitutes a process of transformation in North America through the economic and political action of social forces. The intensification of integration in North America is both part of and a response to attempts by shifting alliances of national capitals to configure large multinational or continental economic spaces. |
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| ISBN: | 9798208714379 |
| Fuente: | ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global |