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.
