You Are Thinking of Teaching or Capital Power and Inequality in Latin America

You Are Thinking of Teaching?: Opportunities, Problems, Realities

Author: Seymour B Sarason

You Are Thinking of Teaching? is a lovely essay on the consideration of teachin. It asks those who are thinking of teaching to ask questions, to ponder their decision, and to pursue the information they need to make a reasoned choice. There is nothing like it in the professional literature, which makes it all the more valuable.
— Pat Walsey, senior researcher for change, Coalition of Essential Schools

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Capital, Power, and Inequality in Latin America: Engendering Wealth and Well-Being, Vol. 16

Author: Sandor Halebsky

Over the last two decades, economic, political, and social life in Latin America has been transformed by the region’s accelerated integration into the global economy. Although this transformation has tended to exacerbate various inequities, new forms of popular expression and action challenging the contemporary structures of capital and power have also developed.This volume is a comprehensive, genuinely comparative text on contemporary Latin America. In it, an international group of contributors offer multidimensional analyses of the historical context, contemporary character, and future direction of rural transformation, urbanization, economic restructuring, and the transition to political democracy. In addition, individual essays address the changing role of women, the influence of religion, the growth of new social movements, the struggles of indigenous peoples, and ecological issues. Finally, the book examines the influence of U.S. policy and of regionalization and globalization on the Latin American states.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction: Capital, Power, and Inequality in Latin America	1
1	Rural Latin America: Exclusionary and Uneven Agricultural Development	21
2	Urban Transformation and Survival Strategies	53
3	Demilitarization and Democratic Transition in Latin America	81
4	The Contemporary Latin American Economies: Neoliberal Reconstruction	109
5	Economic Restructuring, Neoliberal Reforms, and the Working Class in Latin America	137
6	The Riddle of New Social Movements: Who They Are and What They Do	165
7	Latin American Women and the Search for Social, Political, and Economic Transformation	185
8	Latin America's Indigenous Peoples: Changing Identities and Forms of Resistance	207
9	Whither the Catholic Church in the 1990s?	233
10	Latin America and the Social Ecology of Capitalism	253
11	The Global Context of Contemporary Latin American Affairs	279
	About the Book and Editors	305
	About the Contributors	307
	Index	309