INTL DV 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Bracero Program, Social Forces, Dani Rodrik
30 Mar 2021
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Against free trade regimes, anti capitalism protests. Dani rodrik, has globalization gone too far. Joseph stiglitz resigns of wb, publishes book saying imf went overboard in asia , fiscal austerity extracts too high of a price from poor people without generating a corresponding improvement in international economic confidence . Continues to talk of end of neoliberalism. Other jobs that are worse (ex: pulling rickshaw, looking for plastic) Established in 1960s to encourage mexican industrialization on borders (response to end of bracero program) 12mile strip south of us mexico border (el paso/ciudad ju rez) and then expanded to tijuana and other locations across mexico (also nicaragua, el salvador) Maquiladoras: new kind of factory rooted in free trade zones. epzs but closer to the us than asia. Fundamentally different kind of factory: from national to world factory. First world jobs outsourced to third world manufacturing regions. Tw (third world) manufacturing regions part of integrated global supply chains.
