This book explores how the labor practices of the world's largest private employer, Walmart, were contested by unions and regulators in Latin America. With an in-depth case study of Brazil, and a comparative examination of Argentina, Chile, and Mexico, the authors analyze the problematic...

This volume discusses the development of the Mexican manufacturing sector during the NAFTA era. This book pursues several objectives simultaneously. Firstly, it gives continuity to and revitalizes the structuralist economic perspective and debate proposed by Latin American development theory....

Front Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Executive Summary: Managing Spatial Growth for Productive and Livable Cities in Mexico -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Setting the Scene -- High Levels of Urbanization in Mexico -- Urbanization and Socioeconomic Achievements in Mexico -- Remaining...