CEIL   02670
CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS E INVESTIGACIONES LABORALES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
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Título:
Transnational Corporations and the Restructuring of the Argentine Automotive Industry: Change or Continuity?
Autor/es:
GUEVARA SEBASTIAN; FITZSIMONS ALEJANDRO
Lugar:
Londres
Reunión:
Conferencia; 13th Annual Historical Materialism Conference Limits, Barriers and Borders; 2016
Institución organizadora:
Historical Materialism Research in Critical Marxist Theory
Resumen:
Toward the end of the 1980s, the Argentine automotive industry had already experienced 15 years of stagnation and contraction with respect to the peak of production reached in 1973. Nevertheless, by then there began to circulate a series of works that highlighted the possibilities of development opened by global productive transformations (Jenkins, 1985; Kosacoff et al, 1991; Todesca et al, 1989). In the 1990s, the new expansive phase of local automotive production gave place to another group of studies that emphasised the transformations taking place during that decade (Bisang et al, 1995). Certainly, the long crisis experienced by the Argentine process of capital accumulation between 1998 and 2002 made evident the limitations of the aforementioned changes. But the strong expansion of the last decade renewed discussion about the ?restructuring? of the Argentine automotive industry (Barbero & Motta, 2007; Lopez, 2007; Pinazo, 2013; Santancargelo et al, 2011). Beyond the differences based upon theoretical approach and date of publication, it is clear that research on the automotive industry in the last 25 years shares a common point of view. In effect, almost works tend to consider that ?restructuring? qualitatively changed the dynamics of the sector with respect to the preceding era. That is, the development of the local automotive industry is considered to have passed through two great ?models of development?. The first model, whose beginnings are located in the late 1950s and whose end at some point between the mid-1970s and late 1980s, is characterised in that perspective by the orientation of production toward the domestic market, low levels of global productive integration, and limited international competitiveness. Owing to the inward-oriented and relatively isolated production, this first stage of industrialisation is not seen as having been especially determined by the development of the international division of labour in this sector, but rather as part of the broader process of ?import substitution? experienced by post-war Latin American economies. In contrast, this viewpoint also argues that from the early 1990s, the incorporation of the country into the new international division of labour (NIDL) through the reorientation of production toward external markets would put in place a second model of development. This new productive model would also permit the overcoming ? at least partially ? of the shackles on growth deriving from the ?inward-looking? nature of the prior model.