This book details the impact of neo-liberal practice on the production and exchange of basic resources in working-class communities in Mexico. Using anthropological investigations and a market-driven approach, contributors explain how uneven policies have undermined constitutional protections and working-class interests since the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Detailed ethnographic fieldwork shows how foreign investment, privatization, deregulation, and elimination of welfare benefits have devastated national industries and ...
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This book details the impact of neo-liberal practice on the production and exchange of basic resources in working-class communities in Mexico. Using anthropological investigations and a market-driven approach, contributors explain how uneven policies have undermined constitutional protections and working-class interests since the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Detailed ethnographic fieldwork shows how foreign investment, privatization, deregulation, and elimination of welfare benefits have devastated national industries and natural resources and threatened agriculture, driving the campesinos and working class deeper into poverty. Focusing on specific commodity chains and the changes to production and marketing under neo-liberalism, the contributors highlight the detrimental impacts of policies by telling the stories of those most affected by these changes. They detail the complex interplay of local and global forces, from the politically mediated systems of demand found at the local level to the increasingly powerful municipal and state governments and the global trade and banking institutions. Sharing a common theoretical perspective and method throughout the chapters, this is a multi-sited ethnography that makes a significant contribution to studies of neo-liberal ideology in practice.
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Book. Octavo, xi, 354 pages. In Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is brown with white and grey print. Dust jacket in mylar. Boards in brown cloth. Light wear to spine caps and corners, slightly cocked spine. Text block has inscription in ink on front flyleaf. Illustrated: b&w tables, graphs. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column L. 1381697. FP New Rockville Stock.
