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This study examines how unions representing telephone workers--one in Mexico and one in British Columbia, Canada--have responded to changes in technology, work organization, and government policy stemming from the rise of a more global economy. Some business writers have suggested that globalization will compel unions to cooperate with managers as workers are more exposed to international competition. By analyzing the actual record of two unions in the highly internationalized telecommunications industry, however, a different picture emerges.
Agotado el fordismo como forma particular de obtención del plusvalor relativo, desde mediados de los años ochenta del siglo anterior, estamos presenciando una revolución del proceso laboral con base en la automatización del trabajo mental que se sustenta en las computadoras aplicadas a la producción, lo que constituye una primera hipótesis. Además se han refigurado las condiciones generales objetivas del proceso social de producción con los importantes cambios tecnológicos, base de una segunda hipótesis.
Cuando estudiamos la producción de la riqueza en un país, por lo regular nos remitimos al volumen general de su creación en un tiempo dado, a su distribución y grados de concentración, entre muchos otros aspectos. Pero las investigaciones sobre las formas que se han empleado para producirla, y particularmente, sobre la manera en que se obtiene el excedente en sociedades capitalistas como la me xicana, son escasas. Más aún si pretendemos hacerlo desde la concepción de Marx y Engels plasmada en la Crítica de la Economía Política.
The Spanish civil war was fought out not only on streets and battlefields from 1936 to 1939 but also in terms of memory and trauma in the decades that followed. This fascinating book explores how the memory of Spain's bloody civil war has been contested from 1939 to the present.
El presente título contiene, repartidos en dos guesos volúmenes encuadernados en tapa dura con sobrecubierta a todo color, las contribuciones realizadas en el XII Congreso Internacional de Historia del Derecho Indiano, en el que participaron los principales especialistas en la materia, tanto de España como del resto de países europeos y americanos. Entre otras muchas, que alcanzan la cantidad de casi 80 textos entre ponencias y comunicaciones especializadas, mencionamos las siguientes aportaciones a modo de ejemplo: - Las instrucciones a los virreyes rioplatenses. - Cuba, provincia asimilada 1878-1898. - La justicia penal eclesiástica en Córdoba del Tucumán durante el siglo XVIII. - En torno al conocimiento del derecho chino en la América Española. - Solórzano, la Monarquía y un conflicto entre Consejos. - Elementos probatorios vinculados con la rebelión de 1580 en la ciudad de Santa Fe. - Introducción al régimen carcelario indiano rioplatense. - La politíca Américana del nuevo regimén (1808-1810). - El Cardenal Lorenzana y la Nueva España. - La disimulación en el Derecho Indiano. - El Correo Mayor de las Indias.
This book on entrepreneurial fundraising combines rigor and applicability to train current and prospective entrepreneurs in the financing processes. Through its diverse set of chapters, it reviews the latest financing tools and dynamics, the most pressing dilemmas as well as practical examples of ideal methods in the economic-financial management of startups. This book analyzes the financing methods available to entrepreneurs from a practical perspective. Expert authors also present insights on topics such as the role of incubators and accelerators in entrepreneurial fundraising; crowd-based entrepreneurial fundraising instruments; factoring, leasing and confirming for entrepreneurs; governm...
Roving vigilantes, fear-mongering politicians, hysterical pundits, and the looming shadow of a seven hundred-mile-long fence: the US–Mexican border is one of the most complex and dynamic areas on the planet today. Hyperborder provides the most nuanced portrait yet of this dynamic region. Author Fernando Romero presents a multidisciplinary perspective informed by interviews with numerous academics, researchers, and organizations. Provocatively designed in the style of other kinetic large-scale studies like Rem Koolhaas's Content and Bruce Mau’s Massive Change, Hyperborder is an exhaustively researched report from the front lines of the border debate.
Much of the produce that Americans eat is grown in the Mexican state of Baja California, the site of a multibillion-dollar export agricultural boom that has generated jobs and purportedly reduced poverty and labor migration to the United States. But how has this growth affected those living in Baja? Based on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, Made in Baja examines the unforeseen consequences for residents in the region of San Quintín. The ramifications include the tripling of the region’s population, mushrooming precarious colonia communities lacking basic infrastructure and services, and turbulent struggles for labor, civic, and political rights. Anthropologist Christian Zlolniski reveals the outcomes of growers structuring the industry around an insatiable demand for fresh fruits and vegetables. He also investigates the ecological damage—"watercide”—and the social side effects of exploiting natural resources for agricultural production. Weaving together stories from both farmworkers and growers, Made in Baja provides an eye-opening look at the dynamic economy developing south of the border.