Transfer of industrial locations: a survey of free production zones and world market factories in Africa, Asia and Latin America

Abstract

The subject of this article is the study of a new element of the international division of labor: the existence of zones in Asia, Arica and Latin America where production evades all control and where the case in industry, of available manpower leads to the creation of enterprises producing for the world market. (EPWM) While developing countries, in the traditional international division of labor had essentially the task of supplying raw materials, and in addition, cheap labor to' industries located in some industrial countries, for the first time in many centuries, they are becoming increasingly industrialized on a vast scale and this leads to an increasingly vast dissemination of production across the world, as well as 'a growing fragmentation of the production process into numerous partial operations carried out throughout the world. in different places.