Panama's poor : victims, agents, and historymakers / Gloria Rudolf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rudolf, Gloria.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poor--Panama--Loma Bonita (Coclé).

Poor.

Panama--Loma Bonita (Coclé).

Poverty--Panama--Loma Bonita (Coclé).

Poverty.

Physical Description:

xiii, 298 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [1999]

Contents:

Part I. Theoretical, Historical, and Ethnographic Perspectives 1

Introduction: Theoretical Context and Methods 3

1. Capitalist Development, Victimization, and Agency in Panama: Historical and Ethnographic Settings 19

Part II. Origins and Early Impacts of Capitalist Agriculture (Post-Colonial-1960s) 33

2. When Land Was Abundant: Loma Bonita Before Commercial Agriculture (Post-Colonial-1920s) 38

3. Capitalism's Ironies: How Economic Development Made Poor Women and Men Poorer

and More Unequal (1920s-1960s) 62

Part III. From Subsistence Peasants to Peasant-Laborers (1970s) 81

4. To Eat Earth: The Heightened Subsistence Crisis 86

5. Fighting with Feet: Long-Term Urban Wage Labor and the Dependent Peasant-Laborer 106

6. The Rise and Demise of Torrijos' Development from Above 125

Part IV. Postpeasants in Global Capitalism (1980s) 145

7. A Little Bit from Everywhere: Resilient Kinship and Economic Strategies 150

8. Seeds and Blossoms: Long-term Political Impact of a Catholic Social Movement 177

Part V. The Global Economy in Loma Bonita (1990s) 197

9. Post-Invasion Invasions in Loma Bonita 202

Appendix Long-term Ethnographic Field Research 221.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-290) and index.

ISBN:

0813016800

OCLC:

40762631