Mark Rosenberg / Richard Tardanico (eds.)

Poverty or Development

Global Restructuring and Regional Transformation in the US South and the Mexican South
Herausgeber: Tardanico, Richard; Rosenberg, Mark

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Produktbeschreibung

"Poverty or Development" offers a unique look at world inequality, by comparing the development problems and prospects of southern Mexico and the U.S. South in the context of global restructuring and NAFTA. Both regions have a history and legacy as labor-repressive producers of primary commodities. However, the U.S. South today encompasses poles of considerable wealth and poverty, while the Mexican South remains mired in the world periphery. Ranging from the Mexico-U.S. apparel connection and the restructuring of Mexico's coffee farming to agribusiness and immigration in Florida, the contributors trace the past and future of these two Souths.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780415924320
• ISBN-10: 0415924324
• Artikelnr.: 22293046

Autorenporträt

Richard Tardanico is Associate Professor of Sociology at Florida International University. Mark B. Rosenberg is Provost and Professor of Political Science at Florida International University and founding director of the university's Latin American and Caribbean Center.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION 1. Two Souths in the New Global Order-Richard
Tardanico and Mark B. Rosenberg 2. From Free Market Rhetoric to Free Market
Reality: The Future of the U.S. South in an Era of Globalization-Amy K.
Glasmeier and Robin Leichenko 3. The Impact of NAFTA and the WTO on
Southern Mexico: Hypotheses and Preliminary Evidence-Michael E. Conroy and
Sarah Elizabeth West SECTORAL AND GEOGRAPHIC CASE STUDIES 4. The
Mexico-U.S. Apparel Connection: Economic Dualism and Transnational
Networks-Gary Gereffi 5. Local Economic Development and Transnational
Restructuring: The Case of Export-Assembly Manufacturing in
Yucatán-Patricia A. Wilson and Thea Kayne 6. Politico-Economic
Restructuring and Mexico's Small Coffee Farmers-Robert Porter 7. Work and
Immigration: Winter Vegetable Production in South Florida-David Griffith 8.
Politics of Decentralization and Rural Poverty: Municipal Solidarity Funds
and Community Participation in Oaxaca-Jonathan Fox and Josefina Aranda 9.
The Local Matters: The Port of New Orleans Responds to Global
Restructuring-Alma H. Young 10. Employment Transformations in Mexican and
U.S. Gulf Cities-Bryan Roberts and Richard Tardanico CONCLUSION 11. Poverty
or Development?-Richard Tardanico