De minas, mineros, territorios y protestas sociales en México: los nuevos retos de la globalización

Abstract

After a long history of many centuries, the Mexican mining industry is living nowadays significant changes in its institutional and legal norms, its structure of property, as well as in its modalities of mobilization and social answers that have been provoked. Two are the processes that this article focuses on. On one hand, the conformation of a mighty monopolistic sector of the Mexican businessmen in the mining branch and its active intervention, not free of conflicts, in the decline of the corporative system in which mining trade unionism was sustained per decades. On the other hand, we analyzed also the recent sprouting of a new mining enterprise segment, integrated by a significant number of junior Canadian companies. They have promoted the expansion of what we called the third border of the Mexican mining, process that in its roots and its forms of answer and rejection assumes modalities and expressions at the same time globalised and located.

Keywords

• neoliberalism
• trade unionism
• social movements
• industry
• mining