1st Edition
Neoliberalism Revisited Economic Restructuring And Mexico's Political Future
Edited By Gerardo Otero
Copyright 1996
288 Pages
by
Routledge
292 Pages
by
Routledge
291 Pages
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Routledge
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Having unilaterally opened its borders to international competition and foreign investment in the mid-1980s, Mexico has become one of the world's leading proponents of economic liberalization. Nevertheless, as the recent uprising of native peoples in Chiapas has made clear, economic reforms are not universally welcomed. This book addresses the challenges brought about by the restructuring of the... Read more
Neoliberal Reform and Politics in Mexico: An Overview -- NAFTA and the Struggle for Neoliberalism: Mexico's Elusive Quest for First World Status -- The Debt Crisis and Economic Restructuring: Prospects for Mexican Agriculture -- From Export-Oriented to Import-Oriented Industrialization: Changes in Mexico's Manufacturing Sector, 1988–1994 -- Mexico's "Old" and "New" Maquiladora Industries: Contrasting Approaches to North American Integration -- The Mexican Political Pretransition in Comparative Perspective -- The Private Sector and Political Regime Change in Mexico -- Economic Restructuring, State-Labor Relations, and the Transformation of Mexican Corporatism -- Democracy for Whom? Women's Grassroots Political Activism in the 1990s, Mexico City and Chiapas -- Rural Reforms and the Zapatista Rebellion: Chiapas, 1988–1995 -- Crossing Borders: Labor Internationalism in the Era of NAFTA -- Mexico's Economic and Political Futures
Biography
Gerardo Otero is associate professor of Latin American studies and sociology at Simon Fraser University.
