The Dynamics of Social Change in Latin America (International Political Economy Series) - Hardcover

Veltmeyer, Henry; Petras, J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333749375 ISBN 13: 9780333749371

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999

Synopsis

This study examines fundamental theoretical and conceptual issues of social change in Latin America in the context of detailed empirical analysis. It challenges the major assumptions and propositions that underlie globalization theory, reworking and fine tuning the concepts of imperialism and social class as relevant to understanding the 'new world order'. The study centers on the structural features of Latin America and the state policies reconcentrating power in the capitalist class at the expense of labor. The study surveys the contradictory tendencies of concentrated wealth and power and the emergence of new socio-political movements and alternative development strategies to the dominant paradigm.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"This book challenges the notion of an inevitable and irreversible globalization in which free marketeers and their political spokespeople are the only protagonists of history. Beginning with a wide-ranging elaboration of the reconcentration of wealth, power and property, the study focuses on the underlying imperial and class relations that define Latin America's place in the new world order."--BOOK JACKET.

About the Author:

HENRY VELTMEYER is Professor of Sociology and International Development at St Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and Visiting Professor of Political Science at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico. He has published in areas of sociological theory, Canadian political economy and issues of class and developments in Latin America. He is the author of inter alia The Canadian Class Structure and Canadian Corporate Power, and (with F.Leiva and J.Petras) Poverty and Democracy in Chile.

JAMES PETRAS is Professor of Sociology and Latin American studies at Binghamton University. He is the author of over 30 books dealing primarily with Latin America. His most recent book is titled Neoliberalism and Class Conflict in Latin America (Macmillan 1997). He has published over 250 articles in professional journals including the British Journal of Sociology, the American Sociological Review and the Journal of Peasant Studies. He has lectured at major universities in Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, Australia, Asia and North America. He has contributed essays to Le Monde Diplomatique, El Mundo, the Guardian and La Jornada.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0333749375
• ISBN 13: 9780333749371
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 221