From The Finca To The Maquila: Labor And Capitalist Development In Central America

This book presents an analysis of contemporary Central America from a social perspective and, more specifically, from the perpective of one of its main components: the world of labor. Despite undeniable changes, this world is still made up of three basic logics. Labor markets reflect an inability to generate sufficient employment. Labor relations remain precarious. And labor subjects and actors solid enough for their voice to be heard have not managed to establish themselves. The result is that the world of labor in Central America is still marked by vulnerability. Book jacket.

Juan Pablo Perez Sainz is a sociologist with FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales), Costa Rica