In Default: Peasants, the Debt Crisis, and the Agricultural Challenge in Mexico

ISBN-13: 9780367011444 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 287 str.

Marilyn Gates

Opis

This book traces the evolution of the Mexican agrarian policy, follows the progression of the agricultural crisis in the ejidal sector, and illustrates the variety of peasant strategies for coping with the debt crisis as the latest phase in an ongoing process of rural decapitalization.

Spis treści

Introduction -- Codifying Marginality: Agricultural Policy and the Peasantry -- Tradition and Change in Campeche -- The Milpa Meets the Machine -- The Industry of Disasters -- In Default: Campesinos and the Debt Crisis -- A Way Out