Rural Latin America: exclusionary and uneven agricultural development / Crist∫£obal Kay -- Urban transformation and survival strategies / Sandor Halebsky -- Demilitarization and democratic transition in Latin America / Jorge Nef -- The contemporary Latin American economies : neoliberal...

"This volume offers insights into ongoing, global socio-economic transformations by directing attention to the significance of labour, work, craft, community, social institutions, social movements and, emergent subjectivities in different parts of the world. This is in contrast to theories that...

This open access volume identifies the common and specific aspects of social mechanisms that generate inequalities, through comparative analyses of different dimensions in which inequalities are expressed. It includes studies on social inequalities in 5 European and 5 Latin American countries,...