The poverty of revolution : the State and the Urban Poor in Mexico

Eckstein Susan Eva

The poverty of revolution : the State and the Urban Poor in Mexico - Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1977 - xv, 300 p. ; ill.; 24cm

The plight of the urban poor in Mexico has changed little since World War II, despite the country's impressive rate of economic growth. Susan Eckstein considers how market forces and state policies that were ostensibly designed to help the poor have served to maintain their poverty. She draws on intensive research in a center city slum, a squatter settlement, and a low-cost housing development. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished b

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Squatters--Mexico
Slums
Housing
Urban poor

362.50978 ECK

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