The Poverty of Revolution: The State and the Urban Poor in Mexico (Princeton Legacy Library) - Hardcover

Eckstein, Susan Eva

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691093679 ISBN 13: 9780691093673

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1977

Synopsis

The plight of the urban poor in Mexico has changed little since World War II, despite the country's impressive rate of economic growth. Susan Eckstein considers how market forces and state policies that were ostensibly designed to help the poor have served to maintain their poverty. She draws on intensive research in a center city slum, a squatter settlement, and a low-cost housing development.

Originally published in 1977.

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From the Back Cover

About the epilogue: "Eckstein's study of post-earthquake reconstruction events represents a fine weaving of a complex case study into her larger discussion of politics and urban growth in Mexico. The case study is made much more interesting because of the way in which she links it to larger political trends, and the political analysis is made very real by her showing us how it works itself out through this remarkably interesting story. There is no doubt that the epilogue could stand on its own as an excellent monograph."--Judith Tendler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

About the Author

Susan Eva Eckstein is Professor of Sociology at Boston University and former president of the Latin American Studies Association. She is the author of "Back from the Future: Cuba under Castro "(1994). Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley is Associate Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University and former program chair of the Latin American Studies Association. He is the author of "Guerrillas and Revolution in Latin America: A Comparative Study of Insurgents and Regimes since 1956 "(1992). Together they edited "Struggles for Social Rights in Latin America "(2002).

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0691093679
• ISBN 13: 9780691093673
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 320