This book offers a more critical understanding of the economic, social, and political dimensions of Salinismo. It also offers a synthetic assessment of the specific implications of neoliberalism and transnationalization for rural society in Mexico.
Introduction: Structural Adjustment, Neoliberalism and the Mexican Countryside -- On Audacity and Social Polarization: An Assessment of Rural Policy Under Salinas -- Social Life and the Practices of Power: The Limits of Neocardenismo and the Limits of the PRI -- The Transnationalization of Regional Societies: Capital, Class and International Migration -- A Rush Through the Closing Door? The Impact of Simpson-Rodino on Two Rural Communities -- The Family United and Divided: Migration, Domestic Life and Gender Relations -- American Dreams and Nightmares: The Fractured Social Worlds of an Empire in Decadence -- Neoliberalism and Transnationalization: Assessing the Contradictions
