Working-Class Mobilization and Political Control: Venezuela and Mexico

by Charles L. Davis

Historically, Latin American political regimes have sought to postpone far-reaching economic reforms and improvements in living standards in order to facilitate the accumulation of private capital. These goals have led to exclusion of the lower classes from the political process altogether or to efforts to control their political mobilization. The ability of governments to maintain such control has often been attributed to the lack of political sophistication...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081315216X
• ISBN13: 9780813152165
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"