ABSTRACT
I analyse how globalized production dynamics are experienced locally and their impact on the livelihood of workers. The method is centred on a space-place analysis. Industrial production in the twenty-first century responds to a global, ‘totalizing’ dominant social space at a supranational level. At the same time, it needs to be relocated within specific places and deconstructed through the livelihood of the people engaged. I have chosen four units of analysis: (1) the supranational level, where productivity and innovation strategies are planned and brought forth; (2) the national impact of the global production model on the industrial development of Mexico; (3) the specific individual trajectories of Mexican engineers and technicians in their workplaces; (4) the changes and continuities in the livelihood of the workforce as members of a family and their impact on the dynamics of communities and/or on the construction of social networks.
