Ethnic Relations and Binational Market Participation on Mexico/Texas Border

墨西哥/德克萨斯边境的民族关系和两国市场参与

• 批准号: 9404609
• 负责人: Scott Cook
• 金额: $ 7.44万
• 依托单位: University of Connecticut
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-08-01 至 1996-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9404609&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Ethnic; Relations; Binational; Market; Participation

9404609 Cook This project involves a cultural anthropologist from the University of Connecticut studying the social relations, and use of capital in manufacturing enterprises in the small-scale artisan brick industry of the Mexico-Texas border. Using techniques of in-depth interviews with owners, managers and brick workers, the project will try to understand how the low- technology Mexican industry survives and co-exists alongside the heavily capitalized and more high technology US industry. The project will test alternative theoretical explanations for the coexistence of these firms, analyzing theories drawn from literature glossed as modernization, subsumption, flexible accumulation, endo-accumulation, and technical/applied. Different theoretical approaches predict different outcomes for the interaction of the artisan-type brick works with industrial-type works. This research is important because the existence of NAFTA will expand cross-border economic relations. Our understanding will be advanced by studying how the two economic styles relate to each other, not from a simple perspective that the more heavily capitalized North American side will dominate the exchange, but from the perspective of seeing what has developed in one industry over time as a case study.

这个项目涉及康涅狄格大学的一名文化人类学家，他研究了墨西哥-德克萨斯州边境地区小规模工匠制砖工业中制造企业的社会关系和资本使用。通过对业主、经理和砖瓦工人的深度访谈，该项目将试图了解低技术含量的墨西哥工业如何与资本雄厚、技术含量更高的美国工业共存。该项目将测试这些公司共存的其他理论解释，分析从文献中获得的理论，这些理论被粉饰为现代化、包容、灵活积累、内部积累和技术/应用。不同的理论方法预测了工匠型砖瓦工程与工业型砖瓦工程相互作用的不同结果。这项研究很重要，因为北美自由贸易协定的存在将扩大跨境经济关系。通过研究这两种经济风格之间的相互关系，我们的理解将得到提升，而不是简单地从资本更雄厚的北美一方将主导交易所的角度出发，而是从观察一个行业随着时间的推移发展的角度作为案例研究。