The Strategic Role of Mexican Labor under Nafta
Critical Perspectives on Current Economic Integration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9765406 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Delgado Wise (0000-0002-9547-959X, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas "Francisco García Salinas", corresponding author), Joy M Cypher (0000-0002-9047-5311, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas "Francisco García Salinas"), James M Cypher (Doctoral Program in Development Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas (Mexico)) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 610 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 119-142 |
| Publication date | 2007-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716206297527 |
| OpenAlex | W2117819184 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 9 |
This article aims to reveal the precise meaning of Mexico's export platform by focusing on maquiladoras and the disguised maquila industry. In both sectors, imported components account for 75 to 90 percent of export value. As a result, benefits for the Mexican economy are basically restricted to wages, that is, the value of the labor incorporated into the exports. The authors argue that what is actually taking place is the disembodied exportation of labor or, alternatively, that the workforce is being exported without requiring Mexican workers to leave the country. The authors thus demystify the purported orientation of Mexican exports toward high-value-added manufactured goods and reveal the regressive movement of the export platform
Business · Economic growth · Economics · Exportation · International economics · International trade · Labour economics · Meaning (existential · Value (mathematics · Workforce · Economic Zones and Regional Development · Global Trade and Competitiveness · Global trade and economics
Wage Matters & Globalization
Migration and Social Change
A precarização do trabalho e as crises dos modelos produtivos na América Latina no Século XXI
Who is Responsible for the Seaweed? The Limits of Imagination and the Misallocation of Labor
The production of maquiladora space in Motul, Mexico
Social Transformation and Migration
Politics of Motion
International Migration and National Development
South America's Commodities Boom
Transnationalism and Development
International Migration and Development
Disembodied and Deportable Labor at the U.S. Mexico-Border
The Impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) on Rural Children and Families in Mexico
Nafta, Skilled Migration, and Continental Nursing Markets
The Production of Credentialized Aspirations
Neoliberal Globalization, Nafta, and Migration
When Your Child Gets Easy Money, It Feels Good Being a Mom
Gender and Economic Change in the United States and Mexico, 1900-2000
Good clean tobacco
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,06 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |