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  • Informality, Class and Union Activism

    Uniting what Capital Divides in Argentina

    by Rodolfo Elbert ...
    Series series Critiques and Alternatives to Capitalism
    This book addresses the long standing Marxist question about the conditions in which a socially fragmented working class can forge a unified project, using a study of informality, class and union activism in Argentina between 2003 and 2011.Informality, Class and Union Activism explores the articulations between the structural factors and the political strategies that characterize the formation of ... Read more

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    The Politics of the Common and the Democratization of Public Services

    by Ismael Blanco, Ricard Goma, Laura Roth, Matthew Thompson, Lorenzo Vidal-Folch, Carlos Delclós, Mara Ferreri, Anaïs Varo, Marco Aparicio Wilhelmi, David Palomera, Angelina Kussy, Keir Milburn, Kai Heron, Ana Dzokic, Dragan Djunda, Marc Neelan, Dona Geagea, Jampel Dell’Angelo, Maria Francesca De Tullio, Giuseppe Micciarelli, Isabel Feichtner, Susanne Heeg, Tim Wihl, Thomas Hanna, Aaryaman Singhal, Nasya Razavi, Gabriel Silvestre, Marilin Lopez, Karin Friedric, Brian Burke ...
    Series series Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21st Century
    Radical Municipalism offers a fresh perspective on the democratizing capacity of the politics of the common in the transformation of public services, aiming to foster social change at the local level and beyond.Building on a strong theoretical foundation and featuring 14 original case studies from Europe and the Americas, the chapters explore the challenges and possibilities of implementing common ... Read more

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  • Popular Democracy

    The Paradox of Participation

    by Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Ernesto Ganuza ...
    Local participation is the new democratic imperative. In the United States, three-fourths of all cities have developed opportunities for citizen involvement in strategic planning. The World Bank has invested $85 billion over the last decade to support community participation worldwide. But even as these opportunities have become more popular, many contend that they have also become less connected ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Transnational Tortillas

    Race, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States

    by Carolina Bank Muñoz ...
    This book looks at the flip side of globalization: How does a company from the Global South behave differently when it also produces in the Global North? A Mexican tortilla company, "Tortimundo," has two production facilities within a hundred miles of each other, but on different sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. The workers at the two factories produce the same product with the same technology, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Research and International Trade Policy Negotiations

    Knowledge and Power in Latin America

    Edited by Mercedes Botto ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics
    The international trade negotiations that were launched throughout Latin America in the 1990s created significant challenges for developing countries because of their complexity. In order to make informed decisions and successfully legitimize negotiating positions, governments and stakeholders required research, evidence and data from knowledgeable sources such as local technicians and academics ... Read more

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  • Managing African Portugal

    The Citizen-Migrant Distinction

    by Kesha Fikes ...
    In Managing African Portugal, Kesha Fikes shows how the final integration of Portugal’s economic institutions into the European Union (EU) in the late 1990s changed everyday encounters between African migrants and Portuguese citizens. This economic transition is examined through transformations in ideologies of difference enacted in workspaces in Lisbon between the mid-1990s and the early 2000s. ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Neoliberalism and Urban Development in Latin America

    The Case of Santiago

    Edited by Camillo Boano, Francisco Vergara-Perucich ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    In the 1970s and following on from the deposition of Salvador Allende, the Chilean dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet installed a radical political and economic system by force which lent heavy privilege to free market capitalism, reduced the power of the state to its minimum and actively suppressed civil society. Chicago economist Milton Friedman was heavily involved in developing this model, and ... Read more

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  • Ethnic Entrepreneurs

    Identity and Development Politics in Latin America

    by Monica DeHart ...
    Indigenous groups are not often recognized as driving forces in the push for economic development. However, in development efforts across Latin America, governments and corporations have begun to see ethnic cultural difference as an advantage. Ethnic Entrepreneurs explores how diverse groups historically seen as obstacles to development have become valuable to state and regional development ... Read more

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  • Voice and Vote

    Decentralization and Participation in Post-Fujimori Peru

    by Stephanie McNulty ...
    In the months following disgraced ex-President Alberto Fujimori's flight to Japan, Peru had a political crisis on its hands. The newly elected government that came together in mid-2001 faced a skeptical and suspicious public, with no magic bullet for achieving legitimacy. Many argued that the future of democracy was at stake, and that the government's ability to decentralize and incorporate new ... Read more

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  • Side Effects

    Mexican Governance Under NAFTA’s Labor and Environmental Agreements

    by Mark Aspinwall ...
    This is a story about governance in Mexico after the labor and environmental accords—called "side agreements"—that accompanied the NAFTA treaty went into effect. These side agreements required member states to uphold and enforce their labor and environmental laws; though never codified, it was widely accepted that Mexico, in particular, had a problem with law enforcement.Side Effects explores how ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Counter-Globalization and Socialism in the 21st Century

    The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America

    Edited by Thomas Muhr ...
    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    Framed by critical globalisation theory and David Harvey’s ‘co-revolutionary moments’ as a theory of social change, this book brings together a multi-disciplinary team of researchers to empirically analyse how socialism is being constructed in contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean, and beyond.This book uses the case of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - Peoples’ Trade ... Read more

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  • The Politics of the Internet in Third World Development

    Challenges in Contrasting Regimes with Case Studies of Costa Rica and Cuba

    by Bert Hoffmann ...
    Series series Latin American Studies
    This book examines the political and developmental implications of the new information and communication technologies (NICT) in the Third World. Whereas the concept of the "digital divide" tends to focus on technological and quantitative indicators, this work stresses the crucial role played by the political regime type, the pursued development model and the specific configuration of actors and ... Read more

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