Resumo

BELMONT CORTES, Edgar. La reforma laboral en México: La mitificación de la empresa y los ajustes en las relaciones laborales. Nueva antropol [online]. 2014, vol.27, n.80, pp.35-58. ISSN 0185-0636.

The author argues that the assumption that labor market flexibility, or the relaxation of employer obligations, promotes investment and the adaptation of companies to changes imposed by the market, which justified the labor reforms in Latin America in the 1990s, persist as a hegemonic paradigm in Mexico. The author maintains that adjustments in labor law are first part of a short-term logic of financial capitalism that prioritizes immediate gain; and second, that such adjustments are part of a historical dimension that arise with changes in production processes and social relations that are built around work. For example, this occurs with the redefinition of mechanisms and criteria that affect internal mobility in companies or with the incorporation of principles that fit the competency-based management model.

Palavras-chave : Labor reform; productive adjustments; labor dispute; control over working relations.