Economic integration as promoted by NAFTA encourages and consolidates profound transformations in the economic and social structures of Mexico and Canada. Adjustment costs in labor markets fall inordinately on disadvantaged groups in society. Larger economic inequality brings worsened social conditions and a political process that is even more permeated by the power of large national and international capital.
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