Resource Update
CHILE & BRAZIL William H. Overholt, ed., The Future of Brazil (Westview Press, 1979). $19.50 cloth, 285 pgs. Seven articles on Brazil including discussions of foreign relations, the economy and...
...Academic Press, 111 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003...
...Written by a Belgian theologian who was expelled from Brazil in 1972, this book offers a more coherent overview of the development of the "theology of liberation" than the above book...
...Some findings: At the end of 1976, 118 public and private union-related pension plans held $12.6 billion of common stock in 50 predominantly non-union firms...
...DEBTS, PENSIONS George C. Abbott, International Indebtedness and the Developing Countries (M.E...
...The articles approach the topic both from a general socio-political perspective ("Constitutionality, Class and the Limits of Choice in U.S...
...Corporate Data Exchange, 198 Broadway, Room 707, New York, NY 10038...
...In one of their more powerful conclusions, the authors write: "The Chilean experience demonstrates once again that the establishment of a broad system of industrial democracy has been held back not by technical considerations of economic performance but by the threat it poses to the power of dominant socioeconomic groups...
...A more dated collection of essays than the above volume, this offers shorter, more sociologically oriented themes: education, urban development and social class as well as political and economic approaches...
...Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA 94305...
...Foreign Policy") and a case study, economic approach ("The International Competitiveness of the U.S...
...Station, Austin, TX 78712...
...Orbis Books, Maryknoll, NY 10545...
...2.6 billion of common stock in 14 companies which violated OSHA standards...
...Very well done...
...Stanley A. Arbingast, Robert K. Holz, et...
...al., Atlas of Central America (Bureau of Business Research, Univ...
...Also includes chronology of events on the topic for 1978 and useful appendices...
...Economy: A Study of Steel and Electronics...
...Juan G. Espinosa and Andrew S. Zimbalist, Economic Democracy: Workers' Participation in Chilean industry, 1970-1973 (Academic Press, 1978...
...Bureau of Business Research, PO Box 7459, Univ...
...16.75 cloth, 211 pgs...
...22.50 cloth, $6.95 paper, 446 pgs...
...M.E...
...LATIN AMERICA: OVERVIEWS Richard R. Fagen, ed., Capitalism and the State in U.S.-Latin American Relations (Stanford University Press, 1979...
...Extremely interesting analysis of workers' control and the transition to socialism...
...THE CHURCH Jose Comblin, The Church and the National Security State (Orbis Books, 1979...
...Univ...
...Seven articles on Brazil including discussions of foreign relations, the economy and economic development, the debt burden and foreign investment and a political overview...
...NovlDec 1979 Latin America Bureau, Britain and Latin America: An Annual Review of British-Latin American Relations, 1979 (Latin America Bureau, 1979...
...An examination of worker participation and industrial democracy based on data gleaned from 35 firms during the Popular Unity years...
...Each country is presented through a statistical overview and 5 maps: administration, population, economic activity, transportation, and surface geology...
...Extremely important study...
...12.50 cloth, 350 pgs...
...A broad collection of essays which seek to analyze the current state of U.S.-Latin American relations from an economic, political and ideological focus...
...25 cloth, 312 pgs...
...Among the best are "Latin America and the Arms Trade" and an article on the links between South Africa and Latin America...
...of Texas, 1979...
...15th St., Gainesville, FL 32603...
...The author argues for a debt moratorium and the cancellation of at least some forms of outstanding debt...
...Latin America Bureau, PO Box 134, London NW1 4JY, England...
...2.50 paper, 189 pgs...
...Excellent review articles on topics broader than suggested by the title...
...Sharpe, Inc...
...Its strength lies in its ability to situate liberation theology in the economic and political realities of Latin America...
...Westview Press, 5500 Central Avenue, Boulder, CO 80301...
...Sharpe, 901 N. Broadway, White Plains, NY 10603...
...Corporate Data Exchange, Handbook: Pension Investments, A Social Audit (Corporate Data Exchange, 1979...
...8.95 paper, 236 pgs...
...Presses of Florida, 15 N.W...
...75 corporations, $25 non-profit institutions, paper, 125 pgs...
...pension plans...
...Good statistical account of the increasing indebtedness of Third World countries...
...John Saunders, ed., Modern Brazil: New Patterns and Development (University Presses of Florida, 1971...
...The most comprehensive study of pension investments yet undertaken with a detailed analysis of the stockholdings of 142 of the largest public and private U.S...
...18 paper, 62 pgs...
...have your library order a copy...
Vol. 13 • November 1979 • No. 6
