Abstract

GARCIA RAMIREZ, Roberto Fernando  and  GUEVARA BARRERA, Andrés. Mexico: From the corporate pact of import substitution to economic deregulation. RCUISRAEL [online]. 2018, vol.5, n.2, pp.17-30.  Epub Aug 10, 2018. ISSN 2631-2786.  https://doi.org/10.35290/rcui.v5n2.2018.87.

The present work intends to analyze the effects of the exhaustion and crisis of the Industrialization model by Import Substitution in the conditions of social reproduction of the labor force in Mexico through a historical recount. The central hypothesis is that from the deregulation of the economy and the massive establishment of the Export Maquiladora Industry on the border between Mexico and the United States, labor market conditions have become more flexible to the detriment of workers, trans- forming not only the labor market, but the strategies of social reproduction of the labor force and modifying the division of domestic work. The analysis is contextualized in the study of the transformation of the international division of labor as a consequence of the crisis of the Fordist model of postwar ac- cumulation. Due to the above, this historical reading identifies the main changes in three main ways: in the labor flexibility process, in the new reproductive patterns and in the assembly specialization for export; specialization that has defined the economic model of the last decades in the country. The objective is to clarify how the contradictions of the import substitution model gave rise to the creation of favorable conditions for the flexibilization of the labor market commanded by the export maquila.

Keywords : Social reproduction; structural change; labor flexibility; international division of labor; division of domestic work; export specialization; family strategies.

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