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

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This book presents an analysis of latest Central American from a social viewpoint and, more specifically, from that of one of its main components: the world of labor. Regardless of undeniable changes, this world is still made up of three basic logics. Labor markets reflect an inability to generate sufficient employment. Labor relations remain precarious. And labor subjects and actors solid enough for their voice to be heard have not managed to establish themselves. The result is that the world of labor in Central The united states is still marked by vulnerability. }The oligarchic crises in Central The united states has provoked a lot of responses at different levels right through 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 together with the development of new tradables sectors under the influence of globalization, represent attempts to modernize the regions economies. The same has occurred on the political level with the current democratization processes that have meant competitive elections taking place in the entire countries. It’s on the social level that responses have been most weak and levels of poverty remain extremely high. This book presents an analysis of latest Central American history from a social viewpoint and, more specifically, from that of one of its main components: the world of labor. Regardless of undeniable changes, this world is still made up of three basic logics. Labor markets reflect an inability to generate sufficient employment. Labor relations remain precarious. And labor subjects and actors solid enough for their voice to be heard have not managed to establish themselves. The result is that the world of labor in Central The united states is still marked by vulnerability. }

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