Mexico in Transition

Neoliberal Globalism, the State and Civil Society

Gerardo Otero

• Publisher: Zed Books
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781842773598
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781848137332
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Public Policy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Mexico in Transition provides a wide-ranging, empirical and up-to-date survey of the multiple impacts neoliberal policies have had in practice in Mexico over twenty years, and the specific impacts of the NAFTA Agreement. The volume covers a wide terrain, including the effects of globalization on peasants; the impact of neoliberalism on wages, trade unions, and specifically women workers; the emergence of new social movements El Barzón and the Zapatistas (EZLN); how the environment, especially biodiversity, has become a target for colonization by transnational corporations; the political issue of migration to the United States; and the complicated intersections of economic and political liberalization.

Mexico in Transition provides rich concrete evidence of what happens to the different sectors of an economy, its people, and natural resources, as the profound change of direction that neoliberal policy represents takes hold. It also describes and explains the diverse forms of resistance and challenge that different civil-society groups of those affected are now offering to a model the downsides of which are becoming increasingly manifest.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Figures and tables
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Mexico’s double movement: neoliberal globalism, the state and civil society | Gerardo Otero
• 2. Rebellious cornfields: towards foods and labour selfsufficiency | Armando Bartra
• 3. Fruits of injustice: women in the post-NAFTA food system | Deborah Barndt
• 4. Conservation or privatization? Biodiversity, the global market and the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor | Laura Carlsen
• 5. State corporatism and peasant organizations: towards new institutional arrangements | Horacio Mackinlay and Gerardo Otero
• 6. Institutional democratization: changing political practices and the sugarcane growers’ unions of the PRI | Peter Singelmann
• 7. Manufacturing neoliberalism: industrial relations, trade union corporatism and politics | Enrique de la Garza Toledo
• 8. Who reaps the productivity growth in Mexico? Convergence or polarization in manufacturing real wages, 1988–99 | Enrique Dussel Peters
• 9. Labour and migration policies under Vicente Fox: subordination to US economic and geopolitical interests | Raúl Delgado Wise
• 10. Community, economy and social change in Oaxaca, Mexico: rural life and cooperative logic in the global economy | Jeffrey H. Cohen
• 11. Survival strategies in neoliberal markets: peasant organizations and organic coffee in Chiapas | María Elena Martínez Torres
• 12. The binational integration of the US–Mexican avocado industries: examining responses to economic globalism | Lois Stanford
• 13. Convergence: social movements in Mexico in the era of neoliberal globalism | Humberto González
• 14. Contesting neoliberal globalism from below: the EZLN, Indian rights and citizenship | Gerardo Otero
• About the contributors
• Abbreviations
• Bibliography
• Index