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WORLD DEVELOPMENT
Volume 29, Issue 11, Pages 1885-1903Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-750X(01)00075-4
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apparel and textile industries; global commodity chains; industrial districts; maquiladoras; Mexico; North America
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Using a case study of the export-oriented blue jeans industry in Torreon, Mexico, the authors discuss the role of US buyers in promoting full-package apparel production. While the networks associated with this model yield better development outcomes for firms and workers than those typical of the maquila industry, the Torreon cluster is not adequately described as a high road industrial district. The global commodity chains framework is used to assess the developmental implications of the apparel industry's growth in Torreon. By emphasizing the relationship between producers and foreign buyers, this approach provides a useful way to bridge the global-local divide in the literature on industrial clusters in developing countries. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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