The Poverty of Revolution ：The State and the Urban Poor in Mexico ( Princeton Legacy Library )

Publication subTitle ：The State and the Urban Poor in Mexico

Publication series ：Princeton Legacy Library

Author： Eckstein Susan Eva;;;  

Publisher： Princeton University Press‎

Publication year： 2014

E-ISBN: 9781400853915

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691022826

Subject： C91 Sociology;F0 Economics

Keyword： 社会学,经济学

Language： ENG

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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.

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Chapter

Cover

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Preface to the Paperback Edition

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1. The State and Society: Inequality in Postrevolutionary Mexico

The State and the Economy

The State and the Polity

Conclusions and Implications

2. The Rise and Demise of Autonomous Communities

Subordinate Integration into Municipal and National Institutions

Community-based Participation

Informal Interaction

Conclusions and Implications

3. The Irony of Organization

Formal Groups

Informal Constraints

Structural Bases of Co-optation and Incorporation

Conclusions and Implications

Appendix: A Note on Co-optation

4. Politicos and Priests: Oligarchy and Interorganizational Relations

Structures and Processes Linking Church and State

Effects of Church-State Linkages

Bases of Church-State Leadership Linkages

Oligarchy and Interorganizational Ties

Conclusions and Implications

5. The Politics of Conformity

Formal Politics

"Nonpolitical" Groups

Structural Sources of Indirect Politicization

Conclusions and Implications

6. The Political Economy of the Local Communities

Production Sector

Distributive and Service Sectors

Conclusions and Implications

7. Occupational Choice and Occupational Fate

Education and Class Background

The Local Schools

Personal Contacts and Class Background

Prior Job Experience, Age, and Present Occupational Success

Intergenerational Occupational Mobility

Provincialism

Pessimism and Present-Orientation

Custom and Superstition

Religion and Religiosity

The Impact of Physical and Social Environment

Home Ownership and Capital Accumulation

Conclusions and Implications

Appendix: Occupation Classification

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

Epilogue - Fiscal, Physical, and Political Crisis

The National Scene: The Demise of the Mexican "Miracle"

Community Conditions in 1987

Administrative Reform

Political Reform and Party Hegemony

Organizational Atrophy

Electoral Disobedience

Organizational Resistance to Co-optation: The Comerciantes and the Mobilization for Housing in El Centro

Conclusion

Appendix A - Methods and Ethics

Approaches Used

The Field Work: Interplay of Theory and Methods

Research Problems

Appendix B - Questionnaire Administered to Sample of Residents

Bibliography

Index

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