1st Edition

Capital, Power, And Inequality In Latin America

332 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

Over the last two decades, economic, political, and social life in Latin America has been transformed by the region’s accelerated integration into the global economy. Although this transformation has tended to exacerbate various inequities, new forms of popular expression and action challenging the contemporary structures of capital and power have also developed. This volume is a comprehensive,... Read more
Latin American Perspectives Series -- Introduction: Capital, Power, and Inequality in Latin America -- Rural Latin America: Exclusionary and Uneven Agricultural Development -- Urban Transformation and Survival Strategies -- Demilitarization and Democratic Transition in Latin America -- The Contemporary Latin American Economies: Neoliberal Reconstruction -- Economic Restructuring, Neoliberal Reforms, and the Working Class in Latin America -- The Riddle of New Social Movements: Who They Are and What They Do -- Latin American Women and the Search for Social, Political, and Economic Transformation -- Latin America’s Indigenous Peoples: Changing Identities and Forms of Resistance -- Whither the Catholic Church in the 1990s? -- Latin America and the Social Ecology of Capitalism -- The Global Context of Contemporary Latin American Affairs

Biography

Sandor Halebsky, Elizabeth W Dore, John Kirk, Michael Kearney