In the 1890s, Spanish entrepreneurs spearheaded the emergence of Córdoba, Veracruz, as Mexico's largest commercial center for coffee preparation and export to the Atlantic community. Seasonal women workers quickly became the major part of the agroindustry's labor force. As they grew in numbers...

"Engaging essay focuses on hypothesis that capitalist industrial conversion and technological modernization have driven Latin American crisis and promoted a new pattern of capitalist reproduction specializing in export production. Explains that development of this pattern depends on...