Resource Update
IMPERIALISM James Petras, Critical Perspectives on Imperialism and Social Class in the Third World (Monthly Review Press, 1978), $15.00, cloth, 314 pages. Eleven essays on imperialism and...
...Exceptionally good recent study of Nicaragua...
...MaylJune 1979 Arturo Valenzuela, Political Brokers in Chile: Local Government in a Centralized Polity (Duke, 1977), $13.75, cloth, 272 pages...
...No author...
...1.50 from Southeast Asia Resource Center, PO Box 4000D, Berkeley, CA 94704...
...Walter La Feber, The Panama Canal: The Crisis In Historical Perspective, expanded edition (Oxford, 1979), $3.95, paperback, 310 pages...
...Three volumes cover: 1) the crisis of the capitalist system...
...Available from New Star Books, 2504 York, Vancouver, BC V6K 1E3, Canada...
...MAGAZINES AND OTHER RESOURCES "Changing Role of S.E...
...LATIN AMERICA Carl E. Solberg, Oil and Nationalism in Argentina: A History (Stanford, 1979), $15.00, cloth, 245 pages...
...Brian Loveman, Chile: The Legacy of Hispanic Capitalism (Oxford, 1979), $13.95, cloth, 429 pages...
...Very useful publication with good bibliography...
...Thorough businessoriented publication on oil and gas in Latin America and the Caribbean...
...Augustine, Trinidad-Tobago...
...Highlights the role of Chilean political parties...
...The relation between municipal government and national politics in Chile based on survey field research carried out in 1969...
...Available from: Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies, St...
...This process is linked to the growth of the Puerto Rican community in the United States...
...2) social forces and the crisis of Somocismo...
...3) the political conjuncture and the popular insurrection...
...A general history of Chile from the Spanish conquest to the military junta...
...Besides articles on each country with oil or gas deposits, report has general articles on oil and petroleum politics in Latin America...
...Analysis of U.S.-Panamanian relations with new chapter on the 1977-78 congressional debates on the Panama Canal Treaty and the major treaties governing the Canal Zone...
...union activities in Canada...
...Beginning with an examination of the economic crisis of the "center" countries, Sau then discusses capital and technology flows, presenting a different view of "unequal exchange" theory than either Amin or Emmanuel...
...Useful bibliography, chronology and overview, although weak central thesis as implied in title...
...Well-documented study of U.S...
...Ranjit Sau, Unequal Exchange, Imperialism and Underdevelopment: An Essay on the Political Economy of World Capitalism (Oxford, 1978), $9.50, cloth, 202 pages...
...Subtitled, "How the American Federation of Labour took over Canada's unions," this book is the second volume of a series on trade unions and imperialism in the Americas...
...Sixteen essays on the Caribbean, its links to the Third World, case studies of national dependence, race and ideology, foreign policy and economic development and regional integration...
...Subtitled "A People's Primer," this nicely illustrated pamphlet contains important articles on the history of Jamaica, foreign investment, the PNP, class forces on the island and the recent IMF "stabilization" plan...
...Asian Women," recently published joint issue of Pacific Research Bulletin and Southeast Asia Chronicle describes new corporate strategies for the social control of Third World women who are increasingly being used as sources of cheap labor...
...Bryan Cooper, general editor, Latin America and Caribbean Oil Report (Petroleum Economist, 1979), $97.00, paperback, 327 pages...
...A Marxist analysis which locates the causes of migration in transformations in the modes of production of Puerto Rican economic development...
...Available from Petroleum Economist, 5 Pemberton Row, Fleet Street, London EC4, England...
...Eleven essays on imperialism and class in Latin America which attempt to synthesize dependency theory and Marxist class analysis...
...History Task Force, Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueios, Labor Migration Under Capitalism: The Puerto Rican Experience (Monthly Review Press, 1979), $15.00, cloth, 287 pages...
...Basil A. Ince, Contemporary International Relations of the Caribbean (Institute of International Relations, UWI, 1979), paperback, 367 pages...
...Case study of the Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales, the world's first state-owned oil company, concentrating on the 1907-1930 period with a final chapter to 1977...
...WORKERS & MIGRANTS, NORTH & SOUTH Jack Scott, Canadian Workers, American Unions (New Star Books, 1978), $6.50, paperback...
...Quantitative Marxist analysis of unequal exchange in post-war imperialism...
...Available from EPICA Task Force, 1470 Irving Street NW, Washington, DC 20010...
...Nicaragua: Reforma o Revoluci6n, 3 vols, December 1978...
...Available for use only in library of NACLA, New York...
...EPICA Task Force, Jamaica: Caribbean Challenge (EPICA, 1979), $3.50 + 50c postage, paperback, 119 pages...
...13.95, cloth, 242 pages...
Vol. 13 • May 1979 • No. 3
