Searching for Rural Development : Labor Migration and Employment in Mexico /
Throughout the Third World, rural people must leave their homes in ever greater numbers to seek temporary work in urban centers, in distant rural areas, or across international borders. This temporary labor migration, less an option than a necessity for many, is symptomatic of rural stagnation and i...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press
[2019]
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| Col·lecció: | Food Systems and Agrarian Change
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctvv414vn |
Taula de continguts:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: In Quest of Rural Development
- 2. Deciding to Migrate: Pushes, Pulls, and Portfolios
- 3. Searching for Opportunities
- 4. Assessing the Present and Anticipating the Future in Four Rural Areas
- 5. The Politics of Rural Development in Mexico
- 6. Rural Development, National Development, and the International Arena
- Bibliography
- Index