San Antonio College Library

The advance of economic globalization has led many academics, policy-makers and activists to warn that it leads to a 'race to the bottom.' In a world increasingly free of restrictions on trade and capital flows, developing nations that cut public services risk detrimental effects to the populace. Conventional wisdom suggests that it is the poorer members of these societies who stand to lose the most from these pressures on welfare protections, but...

This book examines life, urbanization, residency, and markets in Guatemala City over the course of most of the 20th century through consideration of the relationship between poverty, development, the trajectory of politics in Guatemala, and real life. In surveying development, urban growth, informal settlements, and changing cityscapes over several decades, the author argues that apparently distinct policies, whether unleashed under the revolutionary...