The poverty of revolution : the state and the urban poor in Mexico / Susan Eckstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eckstein, Susan, 1942- author.

Series:

Princeton paperbacks.

Princeton paperbacks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban poor--Mexico.

Urban poor.

Slums--Mexico.

Slums.

Squatters--Mexico.

Squatters.

Housing--Mexico.

Housing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (382 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1988.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The plight of the urban poor in Mexico has changed little since World War II, despite the country's impressive rate of economic growth. Susan Eckstein considers how market forces and state policies that were ostensibly designed to help the poor have served to maintain their poverty. She draws on intensive research in a center city slum, a squatter settlement, and a low-cost housing development.Originally published in 1977.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

LIST OF TABLES

PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE. The State and Society: Inequality in Postrevolutionary Mexico

CHAPTER TWO. The Rise and Demise of Autonomous Communities

CHAPTER THREE. The Irony of Organization

CHAPTER FOUR. Políticos and Priests: Oligarchy and Interorganizational Relations

CHAPTER FIVE. The Politics of Conformity

CHAPTER SIX. The Political Economy of the Local Communities

CHAPTER SEVEN. Occupational Choice and Occupational Fate

CHAPTER EIGHT. The Poverty of Revolution: Mexican Urban Poor in Cross-National Perspective

EPILOGUE. Fiscal, Physical, and Political Crisis

APPENDIX A. Methods and Ethics

APPENDIX Β. Questionnaire Administered to Sample of Residents

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

"First Princeton paperback printing, 1988"--title page verso.

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages [325]-348.

ISBN:

9781400853915

1400853915

OCLC:

889247052