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This ground-breaking Handbook broadens empirical and theoretical understandings of work, work relations, and workers. It advances a global, intersectional labour studies agenda, laying the foundations for the politically emancipatory project of decolonising the political economy of work.
Estas páginas iniciales tienen ese propósito: ser los prolegómenos de un trabajo que tiene como idea principal —¿quizá una idea loca?— tratar de comparar —y en algunos casos sólo poner de presente— las principales propuestas u objetivos —cuando es posible identificarlos— que sobre crecimiento económico y desarrollo humano han presentado en los planes nacionales de desarrollo los Gobiernos desde Alberto Lleras Camargo (1959-1962)2 hasta la segunda administración de Juan Manuel Santos Calderón (2015-2018), con los resultados observados en la realidad, cuando se puede, o sólo de presentar esa realidad, de manera escueta. Trabajo que no es fácil en un país con una historia tan compleja y convulsionada como es Colombia, a lo cual hay que agregar la dificultad para conseguir información estadística confiable sobre lapsos de mediano y largo plazo y con una base común.
"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 140 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year b...
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In what is destined to prove the definitive text for the present generation on the political, economic, and social structure of Colombia, Jorge Pablo Osterling explores the enigmatic nature of this special, even critical, anchor to the northern tier of South America. In many ways, Colombia is a huge success story: it is one of the oldest, most stable, functioning democracies; the land is blessed with rich and diversified resources and products; and its foreign debt has been kept in check as a consequence of sound economic management.But despite its positive social, cultural, economic, and political indicators, Colombia has been a nation beset by serious problems: overt corruption and unemplo...
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.