New book: Global Restructuring, Employment, and Social Inequality in
Urban Latin America, eds. Richard Tardanico and Rafael Menjivar Larin
(Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997).
The volume uses a comparative framework to examine the
implications of contemporary global restructuring and national policies
for urban employment and social inequality in Mexico, Guatemala,
Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Chile, and Argentina. The
comparative framework centers on hypotheses concerning state-sector
cutbacks/reorganization, industry and export transformations, growth of
precarious and informal employment, gender realignments, and territorial
reorganization.
The book represents a collaboration between Facultad Latinoamericana de
Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO)-Programa Costa Rica and the Latin American and
Caribbean Center at Florida International University, funded by the
North-South Center at the University of Miami.
The authors are Orlandina de Oliveira and Brigida Garcia (Mexico); Juan
Pablo Perez Sainz (Guatemala); Rick Tardanico and Mario Lungo (Costa
Rica); Jose Itzigsohn (Dominican Republic); Victor Fajardo Cortez and
Miguel Lacabana (Venezuela); Alvaro Diaz (Chile); Rosalia Cortes
(Argentina); and Rick Tardanico and Rafael Menjivar Larin (introduction
and conclusion).
FLACSO-Costa Rica is preparing a Spanish-language edition for publication
in 1998.
Saludos,
Rick Tardanico