ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how various actors, in the aeronautic industry in two regions of Mexico, Baja California and Queretaro, engage in organisational experimentation to attract new investment and create high skill jobs. A striking difference between the two clusters lies in the role of trade unions in the process of experimentation. In Baja California, trade unions are not involved in the process of organisational experimentation while the coordinated approach developed in Queretaro opens more space for workers and trade unions to participate in the processes of organisational experimentation. The mobilisation of both associational and organisational power resources provides trade unions with more opportunities to voice their concerns than would otherwise be the case. However, these power resources are not sufficient to overcome the pressures to conform to the export-oriented imperative of the national State and foreign capital.
