Latin Americas Economy or Latino Social Movements

Latin America's Economy: Diversity, Trends, and Conflicts

Author: Eliana A Cardoso

Latin America's Economy provides a clear, comprehensive, and accessible overview of major economic issues facing Latin America today, including balance of payments problems, inflation, stabilization, poverty, inequality, and land reform. Each chapter centers on an economic problem, presenting major economic theories about the causes and possible solutions to the problem. The authors provide numerous cross-country examples to demonstrate how individual countries are affected by economic trends or policies. Chapters also include helpful summaries and ideas on what the future may hold.

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Latino Social Movements: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives

Author: Rodolfo D Torres

Latinos make up the fastest growing population segment in the US, and by the middle of the next century, they will outnumber all other minority groups combined. Even more significant is the fact that within a few years, Latinos will number more than a quarter of the nation's work force; this is more than three times their proportion in the general population.

Latino Social Movements discusses the socioeconomic and cultural consequences of the changing US population in the light of globalization. It calls attention to the increasing significance of class and the system of global capitalism that underlies political relations of power. Focusing on the place of labor, class, patriarchy and capital, this collection relates these objective realities with the subjective context of popular attempts to transform the existing socio-economic conditions of Latino life.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	1
	Anti-Colonial Chicana Feminism	11
	Lessons from el Barrio - The East Harlem Real Great Society/Urban Planning Studio: A Puerto Rican Chapter in the Fight for Urban Self-Determination	43
	Boricuas, African Americans, and Chicanos in the "Far West": Notes on the Puerto Rican Pro-Independence Movement in California, 1960s-1980s	79
	The 1933 Los Angeles County Farm Workers Strike	111
	Latino Immigrant Workers in the Los Angeles Apparel Industry	141
	Latino Politics - Class Struggles: Reflections on the Future of Latino Politics	165
	The Cloning of La Raza Unida Party for the Twenty-first Century: Electoral Pragmatism or Misguided Nostalgia?	181
	Notes on Contributors	207