Labor crisis in the Guadalajara metropolitan area

Abstract

Based on the statistical information available, it appears that since 2014, the population of the Guadalajara metropo­litan area (RMG) faces the greatest employment crisis of this century. After a year, just over 70 thousand workers lost their jobs and 5000 more were added to the unemployment lines. It also shows that a greater number of workers saw an income below that required to purchase the recommended basic food basket. Therefore we believe that the loss of employment as well as low levels of income earned by workers in this metropolitan area, due to the escalation in the rate of accumulation of capital and labor and tax changes, form a labor crisis than the one in 2009 (year of national, regional and international economic crisis).

Revista Población y Desarrollo: Argonautas y Caminantes, Vol. 11, 2015: 49-60