Product Description: Bryan Roberts’ study of two poor neighborhoods of Guatemala City is an important contribution to the understanding of the urban social and power organization of underdeveloped countries. It is the first major study of any Central American urban population...read more

Product Description: Este libro es una aportacion de las ciencias sociales para un balance del neoliberalismo. Sus argumentos se basan en investigacion empirica con analisis sistematicos y comparativos en seis ciudades latinoamericanas y que compara como cada una de ellas ha evolucionado respecto del sistema de ciudades de su pais, como ha cambiado el mercado de trabajo, las tasas de pobreza, la distribucion del ingreso, las tasas de delincuencia y como se han transformado las acciones sociales y populares para responder a las nuevas politicas...read more

Product Description: Mexico is becoming increasingly important as a focus of U.S. immigration policy, and the movement of people across the U.S.-Mexico border is a subject of intense interest and controversy. The U.S. approach to cross-border flows is in flux, the economic climate in Mexico is uncertain, and relations between the two neighbors have entered a new stage with the launching of NAFTA...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Originally published as Cities of Peasants, this highly acclaimed account of the expansion of capitalism in the developing world has now been extensively reworked and updated. The book links contemporary differences in the political and economic structure of developing countries to the historically-specific way in which these have become part of the world economy...read more