1st Edition
In Default Peasants, The Debt Crisis, And The Agricultural Challenge In Mexico
By Marilyn Gates
Copyright 1993
286 Pages
by
Routledge
286 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines the effects of austerity on Mexican peasants who had been enmeshed in a national agricultural crisis since the late 1960s. It traces the evolution of Mexican agrarian policy and its cumulative impact on the peasantry.
1. Introduction 2. Codifying Marginality: Agricultural Policy and the Peasantry 3. Tradition and Change in Campeche 4. The Milpa Meets the Machine 5. The Industry of Disasters 6. In Default: Campesinos and the Debt Crisis 7. A Way Out