1st Edition

From The Finca To The Maquila Labor And Capitalist Development In Central America

By Juan Perez Sainz Copyright 1999
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

The oligarchic crises in Central America has provoked a variety of responses at different levels during the last decades. The development of new agroexports in the 1950s, the import substitution industrialization of the 1960s, and the current opening up of trade along with the development of new tradables sectors under the influence of globalization, represent attempts to modernize the region's... Read more
Introduction -- Coffee and Bananas: The World of Labor on the Eve of Modernization -- A Time of Hope: Capitalist Modernization and Labor -- More Than a Lost Decade: The Crisis and Labor Adjustments -- An Uncertain Future: Globalization, Productive Restructuring, and Labor -- Conclusions

Biography

Juan Perez Sainz