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Klappentext: "Around the 1830s, parts of Mexico began industrializing using water and wood. By the 1880s, this model faced a growing energy and ecological bottleneck. By the 1950s, fossil fuels powered most of the Mexico's economy and society. Looking to the north and across the Atlantic, late nineteenth-century officials and elites concluded that fossil fuels would solve Mexico's energy problem and Mexican industry began introducing coal. But limited domestic deposits and high costs mean that coal never became king in Mexico. Oil instead became the favored fuel for manufacture, transport, and electricity generation. This shift, however, created a paradox of perennial scarcity amidst energy abundance: every new influx of fossil energy led to increased demand." --

"In Fighting Unemployment in Twentieth-Century Chile, Ángela Vergara narrates the story of how industrial and mine workers, peasants and day laborers, as well as blue-collar and white-collar employees earned a living through periods of economic, political, and social instability in twentieth-century Chile. The Great Depression transformed how Chileans viewed work and welfare rights and how they related to public institutions. Influenced by global and regional debates, the state put modern agencies in place to count and assist the poor and expand their social and economic rights. Weaving together bottom-up and transnational approaches, Vergara underscores the limits of these policies and demonstrates how the benefits and protections of wage labor became central to people's lives and culture, and how global economic recessions, political oppression, and abusive employers threatened their working-class culture. Fighting Unemployment in Twentieth-Century Chile contributes to understanding the profound inequality that permeates Chilean history through a detailed analysis of the relationship between welfare professionals and the unemployed, the interpretation of labor laws, and employers' everyday attitudes."

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 The Emergence of Natural Gas -- 2 The Economics of Natural Gas Development -- 3 Natural Gas and the Environment -- 4 Natural Gas and Development: The Policy Issues for Developing Countries -- 5 Power Generation with Natural Gas-Fired Gas Turbines -- 6 The Use of Natural Gas in the Nitrogen Fertilizer Industry -- 7 Natural Gas and Natural Gas Liquids in the Chemical Industry -- 8 Natural Gas as a Transportation Fuel -- 9 Natural Gas - Interchangeability with Other Fuels -- Appendixes -- About the Contributors -- Index.

Los artículos que recoge este libro fueron publicados durante los últimos cinco años. En este libro el autor nos conduce amena y rigurosamente por la vida política peruana de los años 2000. Aquí están reunidos los sustos, sopapos e histerias que acuden a cada tanto nuestra política

Traces the history of the labor movement in Chile through the experiences of copper miners employed by the Anaconda Copper Company from 1945 to 1990. Covers the economic, political, and social history of the 45-year period when the Cold War dominated Chilean politics - Provided by publisher