Assembling for Development: Maquila Industry in Mexico and the United States - Hardcover

Sklair, Leslie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0044452780 ISBN 13: 9780044452782

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1989

Synopsis

First published in 1989, this book focuses upon the phenomenon of export-led industrialisation fuelled by foreign investment and technology. He concentrates on Mexico, where US companies have been taking advantage of inexpensive labour to establish "maquila" factories that assemble US parts for export. Through this detailed study of the maquila industry, Sklair charts the progress from the political imperialism of colonial days to the economic imperialism of today.

About this title

Synopsis:

This examination of export-led industrialization fuelled by foreign investment and technology is based on a case-study of the maquila industry which is of importance to Mexico's overall development strategy as well as to the US economy. This book is part of a larger project on the developmental effects (or lack of them) of transnational capital in the Third World which analyzes the processes and dynamics at work in a group of export-orientated assembly industries. They are the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone in China, just across the border from Hong Kong; the Shannon free zone in the midwest region of Ireland; and the Egyptian free zones. These studies work out a set of criteria against which the developmental effects of foreign investment in these zones could be measured and tries to assess their value.

About the Author:

Leslie Sklair teaches sociology, and is responsible for the Ph.D. Research Programme in Sociology, at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of "Assembling for Development" (second edition, 1993) and "Sociology of the Global System" (second edition, 1995), and the editor of "Capitalism and Development" (1994).

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0044452780
• ISBN 13: 9780044452782
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320