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Restructuring at the Source

High-Skilled Industrial Migration from Mexico to the United States

University of California, Los Angeles

This article deals with a largely overlooked consequence of Mexico’s process of economic restructuring in the past 2 decades: the incorporation of the country’s skilled industrial workers into U.S.–bound migratory flow. In Mexico, restructuring has transformed workplaces and undermined employment stability and wage and benefits systems that used to keep industrial workers from migrating to the United States. By studying a working-class neighborhood in Monterrey, Mexico, this article seeks to show how migration has become part of the structure of labor market opportunities of displaced manufacturing operatives and how these workers have managed to transfer skills to the oil technology and extraction industries at their main U.S. destination, Houston, Texas.

Key Words: Mexico • industrial migration • peripheral Fordism

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