Ethnic Relations and Binational Market Participation on Mexico/Texas Border

9404609库克这个项目涉及康涅狄格大学的一位文化人类学家，他研究了墨西哥-德克萨斯州边境小规模手工砖业制造企业的社会关系和资本使用情况。该项目将利用对业主、经理和砖工的深入采访技术，试图了解低技术的墨西哥行业是如何生存下来的，并与资本雄厚、技术更高的美国行业共存。该项目将测试这些企业共存的其他理论解释，分析从文献中提取的理论，如现代化、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厂与工业型砖厂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。我们将通过研究这两种经济风格如何相互关联来推进我们的理解，而不是从资本更雄厚的北美一方将主导交易所的简单角度，而是从一个行业随着时间的推移发展的角度作为案例研究。

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.