Mexico in the 1990s: economic crisis, social polarization, and class struggle
In: Latin American perspectives: a journal on capitalism and socialism, Band 28, Heft 3, S. 3-149
ISSN: 0094-582X
Examines the social costs of capitalist development and neoliberalism; 12 articles. Contents: Pt. 1: Developing disarticulation within the Mexican economy, by James M. Cypher: Accomplishments and limitations of the Mexican export project, 1990-1997, by Jorge Basave Kunhardt; The Mexican crisis and the Maquiladora boom: a paradox of development or the logic of neoliberalism? by Paul Cooney; Neoliberal reforms and rural poverty, by Thomas J. Kelly; From neoliberalism to social liberalism: situating the national solidarity program within Mexico's passive revolutions, by Susanne Soederberg; What a difference a crisis makes: NAFTA, Mexico, and the United States, by Stephen D. Morris and John Passé-Smith; Pt. 2: Democratization in Mexico: the Zapatista uprising and civil society, by Chris Gilbreth and Gerardo Otero; Of free trade and debt bondage: fighting banks and the state in Mexico, by Heather Williams; Neoliberalism, labor market transformation, and working-class responses: social and historical roots of accommodation and protest, by Richard Roman and Edur Velasco Arregue; From the resources of poverty to the poverty of resources? the erosion of a survival model, by Mercedes González de la Rocha; Narcotrafficking, migration, and modernity in rural Mexico, by Victoria Malkin; Economic, globalization, class struggle, and the Mexican state, by José M. Vadi.