"Natural resource extraction and primary commodity export remain persistent features of the Latin American economy. This book traces the power of labor in extractive sectors in Latin America starting in the 1980s; how it shapes national export sectors, economies, politics, and societies more...

This chapter compares the development of Latin American countries with that of traditionally developed nations, based on several international indicators of well-being and sustainability that have emerged in the last decade. It is argued that in Latin America there is a specific type of...

"This cutting-edge book presents a broad picture of global capitalism and extractivism in contemporary Latin America. Leading scholars examine the cultural patterns involving gender, ethnicity, and class that lie behind protests in opposition to extractivist projects and the contrast in...