The Political Economy of Transnational Power and Production - Mexico's Metamorphosis 1982-2022

The Political Economy of Transnational Power and Production: Mexico''s Metamorphosis 1982-2022

How and why Mexico-s socioeconomic structure was transformed through plutocratic preferences, US corporate strategies, and ideology-all powering transnational processes of neoliberalization-are issues examined in this comprehensive, carefully documented publication covering four crucial decades of metamorphosis. The causes and consequences of the creation of a new, regional power bloc-the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)-are extensively examined.

Readers will benefit from the many important demystifications presented here, chronicling the asymmetric Mexico-US production system. The impacts of the new transnational structure for labor on both sides of the border are matters of centrality. Specialists and general readers alike will find an explicit and accessible account of the powerful forces opening access to and profiting from mill