Privatización y reestructuración de la industria de equipos ferroviarios en México (1993-2012): el caso de Concarril-Bombardier

This work consists of two parts. At first, some aspects of privatization of railway equipment industry that have been overlooked by discourseand neoliberal politics are analyzed. Against the dominant conception, that pointing to the financial deterioration, productive inefficiency and low competitiveness in the market as the main causes of the privatization of public enterprises in Mexico, in this article, the author finds that the purchase of the state-owned railway equipment industry by foreign private capital was strongly motivated by the achievements in technological development of public enterprises and its strategic position in the market. Privatization, in this case, it was not just the rescue of an industry in crisis, actually meant the transfer to private capitalof the profitable public assets and the control of the highly lucrative market segments. In the second part of this article the restructuring of this industry under the guidelines set by the entry of multinational companies are analyzed. It is observed that after a period of partial deindustrialization, currently the organization of production and work in this industry rests on mechanisms that allow large companies to transfer with relative ease the costs of the crisis on the working class and the set of suppliers and highly specialized local subcontractors, who survive in the shadow of a latent industrialization based on the ability of reconfiguration of functions and relocation of assets that today have foreign enterprises in this industry.