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Book SynopsisIndustrial Colonialism in Latin America confronts critical problems being experienced by Latin America in its quest for development. Special attention is paid to the living conditions of the popular sectors over the last half-century under industrial colonialism'. The author's framework of analysis weaves together key structural variables including the neoliberal mode of knowledge creation for material production in order to unveil the actual mechanisms of the reproduction of this system.'
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Prologue by R.A. Dello Buono Introduction Chapter 1: Imperialism and Industrial Colonialism Monopoly, the Role of Science and the Function of the State Social Relations of Production and Foreign Trade The Workings of Industrial Colonialism Imperialism and Nature Chapter 2: Imperialism at the Third Stage Key Aspects of Crisis The “Globalization” Strategy From 1995 Forward Capital and Nature Chapter 3: The Pattern of Industrial Colonialism Barriers to Regional Appropriation of Scientific Knowledge for Production National Innovation Systems in Latin America The Universities in the Region External Limits to Export-led Economic Growth The Different Functional Roles within the Region Internal Contradictions Political Regimes at the Third Stage Climate Change in Latin America Chapter 4: Industrial Colonialism and Surpluses of Population The Over-Supply of Labor-Power and Surplus-Population Theory Deficits and Surpluses of Population The Surpluses of Population and their Activities Relative Surpluses of Population at the Level of Goods Production and Repairs Relative Surpluses in the Sphere of Commodity Circulation Surpluses of Population beyond Capital Valorization What about Home Labor? The Nature of the Latin American Migrant Worker and the Historical Record Remittances and Wage Differentials The Indigenous Population Chaper 5: Industrial Colonialism and Peasant Production The Social Character of Peasant Production From Peasant Production to Infra-subsistence Production Social Impacts of Neoliberalism on the Countryside Bibliography Appendix: The Underlying Causes of Underdevelopment in Latin America Subject Index Name Index
