Localized Global Economies on the Northern Borderlands of Mexico and Morocco

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Trinidad Requena, Antonio (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Soriano-Miras, Rosa M. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Solís, Marlene (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kopinak, Kathryn (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Economic sociology.; Industrial sociology.; Sociology, Urban.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Political sociology.; Emigration and immigration.; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.; Sociology of Work.; Urban Studies/Sociology.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Political Sociology.; Migration.
• Physical Description: XXIII, 250 p. 26 illus., 3 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319965895
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-96589-5

This comparative study examines the processes of development and the configurations of export industries in northern Morocco and on the northern border of Mexico. As the contributors explore the similar characteristics of these two borders, they also examine how the global economy circulates around "places of production"-sites advantageous to the development of export industries. Focusing on transnational firms and the working conditions, settlement processes, and migratory flows they engender, this volume considers if a convergence toward a global culture is inevitable in places of production, or if local resistance emerges in response to the impact of the global.