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CAPITAL, CRISIS AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison, Capital and Communities: The Causes and Consequences of Private Disinvestment (The Progressive Alliance, 1980)....
...Much of the growth ( 5 7 % during the 1960s) is based on the Border Industrialization Program, the magnet which has attracted labor-intensive industry to both sides of the border Martinez examines the history of the town where he grew up and the Border Industrialization Program...
...Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, NJ 07716...
...To this end, he presents an analysis of the development of the crisis in the system's core, in the United States...
...Write for price, paper, 216 pgs...
...University of Texas Press, PO Box 7819, Austin, TX 78712...
...and the state and multinational corporations...
...His principal concern is to avoid overgeneralization when discussing the Third World and to situate imperialism and underdevelopment into a specific historical analysis of the formation of social classes...
...Latin America Area Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85722...
...Barry Poulson and T. Noel Osborn, eds., U.S.-Mexico Economic Relations (Westview Press, 1979...
...The Handbook sells for $5 (non-profit institutions) and $25 (corporations) NACLA Report update * update . update * update LATIN AMERICA Lorraine Stevens, What is Socialism...
...Jose Villamil, ed,, Transnational Capitalism and National Development: New Perspectives on Dependence (Humanities Press, 1979...
...Also includes a brief overview of Uruguayan history and some useful statistical materials...
...A companion piece to the Stock Ownership Directory, this pamphlet is a primer on the structure and concentration of banking and seven other financial industries...
...Available in the United States through Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, NJ 07716...
...Oscar J Martinez, Border Boom Town: Ciudad Juarez Since 1848 (University of Texas Press, 1978...
...It highlights many advances the Cubans have made-particularly in contrast to the United States-but doesn't leave the reader in any position to understand the current wave of emigration from the island...
...Roxborough reviews and critiques some of the major theories of development from Marx, Weber and Durkheim to A.G...
...He presents an argument for the utility of adopting recent work in "modes of production" analysis, seeing Third World societies as particular combinations of different modes of production which establish a basis for forms of class structure and political representation that are specific to these societies...
...CDE has also recently published another of their "Handbook" series, this one on Banking and Finance: The Hidden Cost...
...Latin America Bureau, Uruguay...
...Short history of U.S.-Mexico relations which argues the persistent lack of a coherent U.S foreign policy towards Mexico and the need for one to be developed at the present time...
...Castells, a leading Marxist urban sociologist, seeks in this work to find the underlying causes and the forseeable consequences of the economic crisis on the structure and evolution of advanced capitalism...
...20 paper, 334 pgs...
...steelworker pension money supports Japanese steel producers...
...Latin America Bureau, PO Box 134, London NW1 4JY, England...
...3: Banking and Finance profiles 240 major companies active in eight financial industries including commercial banking, insurance, finance and investment management...
...Sociological examination of Monterrey, Mexico, a city which, according to the author, represents one of the few areas in Latin America "where an autonomous large-scale process of industrial development has come about, 'carried' by local entrepreneurs who, moreover, have developed into one of the most powerful pressure groups on the national level " (This is one of a number of excellent studies published or distributed in the United States by Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, NJ 07716...
...12.50 paper, 335 pgs...
...Serron is straightforward about the nature of his book: 'The purpose of this work is to determine whether or not it is possible to arrive at conclusions that clearly tend to validate or invalidate one or the other of two ideologically polar theories of poverty (the Malthusian and the Marxian) by examining relevant data within a social system deliberately selected because of its known tendency to emphasize the magnitude of the key variables involved in both theories...
...3.00 paper, 27 pgs...
...Generals Rule (Latin America Bureau, 1980...
...and U.S...
...His conclusion: Marxian notions of exploitation are more helpful and valid than the Malthusian concept of scarcity...
...CELA "Justo Arosemena," Apartado 6-3093, 'El Dorado,' Panama...
...Both are gems of solid research and hard work which provide researchers and activists with their first in-depth understanding of who controls voting within a corporation...
...A Working Class Organizer Visits Cuba (United Struggle Press, 1980...
...United Struggle Press, 1133 Broadway, Room 517, New York, NY 10010...
...The study, which ends at the Depression, provides a good background for appreciating similarities and differences between turn-ofthe century and current migratory waves from Mexico...
...The Progressive Alliance, 1625 L Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036...
...Write CDE, Room 707, 198 Broadway, New York, NY 10036, for prices of the Stock Ownership Directories...
...Historical monograph based on archival materials from Mexico and the United States...
...8.95 paper, 192 pgs...
...University of Arizona Press, Box 3398, Tucson, AZ 85722...
...19.95 cloth, 279 pages...
...A well-researched and written study which succeeds in presenting a "comprehensive and carefully documented discussion of the previously underestimated economic and human consequences of capital shift, the reasons for its current impact, the limitations of operative policies to address the crisis and, finally, progressive strategies which would lead to more balanced and equitable economic growth...
...30 cloth, 442 pgs...
...55% of the top 100 banks in the U.S...
...Includes references, names, addresses, sources, etc., for the following categories: narratives and local listings for border communities, U.S...
...CORPORATIONS: CDE PUBLICATIONS The Corporate Data Exchange (Room 707, 198 Broadway, New York, NY 10038) has recently published the third and fourth in its series of Stock Ownership Directories...
...Milton H. Jamail, The United States-Mexico Border: A Guide to Institutions, Organizations and Scholars (Latin American Area Center, University of Arizona, 1980...
...As in the Roxborough study, Taylor critiques the 46 developmental sociologists, taking particular aim at Talcott Parsons, and the "underdevelopment theorists," Baran, Sweezy and Frank...
...control more than 5% of their own stock despite the recommendation of Congressman Patman in 1968 that banks be prohibited from such a high incidence of self-control...
...John G. Taylor, From Modernization to Modes of Production: A Critique of the Sociologies of Development and Underdevelopment (Humanities Press, 1979...
...7.00 plus 50c postage, paper, 153 pgs Extremely useful guide for anyone researching, studying or doing activist work on the U.S.-Mexican border...
...22.50 cloth, $11.50 paper, 175 pgs...
...2.00 paper, 33 pgs...
...The aim of this volume, according to the author, is to put forward a tentative general framework for the analysis of Third World formations...
...Policy (Foreign Policy Association, 1980...
...20 cloth, $5.95 paper, 285 pgs...
...Thirty essays covering such topics as international trade and the balance of payments, U.S...
...This short pamphlet was written by an organizer for the New York City Unemployed and Welfare Council after her 1978 trip to Cuba...
...Very useful charts, statistics...
...Westview Press, 5500 Central Avenue, Boulder, CO 80301...
...Manuel Castells, The Economic Crisis and American Society (Princeton University Press, 1980...
...37.50 cloth, 325 pgs...
...MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES Lawrence A. Cardoso, Mexican Emigration to the United States, 1897-1931: Socio-Economic Patterns (University of Arizona Press, 1980...
...lan Roxborough, Theories of Underdevelopment (London: MacMillan Press, 1979...
...Peter H. Smith, Mexico: The Quest for a U.S...
...Uruguay has become the forgotten dictatorship in Latin America, but this little volume should help publicize the nature of repression in that country...
...Includes an extended essay on the theory of crisis and a look at post-World War II economy and society...
...University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK 73019...
...Among the conclusions of the study: the eleven largest money center banks hold up to 15.4% in each other...
...Absolutely essential for any research on and understanding of energy politics and policies in the United States today...
...and Mexico concerned with border July/August 1980 issues, etc...
...Good overview and thoughtful presentation...
...al., Las luchas obreras on Panama (1850-1978) (Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos "Justo Arosemena," 1980...
...Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, NJ 07716...
...investments and multinational corporations, migration, agriculture and energy...
...Luis A. Serron, Scarcity, Exploitation and Poverty: Malthus and Marx in Mexico (University of Oklahoma Press, 1980...
...The booklet is comprised of the transcription of a conversation between Lorraine Stevens and two Cubans and tends to be rambling and unfocused...
...4: Energy examines the largest stock holders of 142 companies in the energy field (petroleum, coal, natural gas, electric utilities and nuclear...
...27 cloth...
...Name one of the world's fastest growing urban areas: not New York or Tokyo, but Ciudad Juarez-El Paso, the twin cities that span the Rio Grande...
...20.75 paper, 213 pgs...
...Good overview of the history of organized labor in Panama...
...Includes studies of Puerto Rico and Kenya as well as overviews on Latin America and Africa...
...Foreign Policy Association, 205 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10016) Menno Vellinga, Economic Development and the Dynamics of Class: Industrialization, Power and Control in Monterrey, Mexico (Van Gorcum & Co., 1979...
...Fourteen essays examining the theoretical issues inherent in development and dependency, transnational structures (technology, mass communications, etc...
...Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 08540...
...12.95 cloth, 231 pgs...
...Marco Gandasegui, Jr., et...
...Although its price will be a disappointment to many, it is a study which should be read by all interested in the issue of capital flight...
...Excellent source for those baffled by finance and who need a clear and accurate description and definition of the industry...
...and Mexican Federal level involvement, regional organizations, maquiladoras, groups in U.S...
...Frank, Barrington Moore, Prebish, Wallerstein, Amin and some of the current "Althusserians...
...1.50 paper, 73 pgs...
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