The automotive industry in Mexico, the re-exporting secondary accumulation pattern and impacts: wages and employment

This article deals with the organizational renewal offered by the digital techno-economic pa­radigm and the production organized by geographically dispersed links to the automotive industry in the last part of the twentieth century. We maintain that American corporations are the leading dynamic center of digital and network technology, but they are also suppliers of the current technoproductive paradigm to peripheral economies and follower economies. Therefore, the enormous economic gains derived from the current technological paradigm are concentrated in its monopolistic core and exclude peripheral countries, such as Mexico, towards activities of lower productivity of the chain for this industry. In addition, labor flexibi­lity, low wages, a growing industrial reserve army and a low level of bargaining of the working class become an indispensable requirement for insertion into the regional chain.