ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the impact of the economic model established in Mexico with the opening up of the country to the industrial relocation of firms from the global North, primarily the United States; focuses on the case of the Mexican state of Puebla, its capital city of the same name and the city of Tehuacan and the role of women in the labour market in Puebla. Industrial relocation as a development model has led to the deterritorialization of a “glocalized area” through the confluence of four “basic social processes” that are the result of the interrelationships among key actors – political/institutional authorities, transnational firms (TF) and workers in TF – as they manifest in the work sphere and in control over natural resources. The deterritorialization of a glocalized field is influenced by the following factors. Political-institutional governance, B S P: Incorporation of the local economy in the global economy.
