Ian Roxborough

Gender and Work in the Third World: Sexual Divisions in Brazilian Industry

As countries in the Third World become more industrialized, what type of sexual division of labour will be established? Taking Brazil as an example, John Humphrey examines the issues around this question.

Capitalism and Social Democracy

This is a study of the choices faced by socialist movements as they developed within capitalist societies. Professor Przeworski examines the three principal choices confronted by socialism: whether to work through elections; whether to rely exclusively on the working class; and whether to try to reform or abolish capitalism. He brings to his analysis a number of abstract models of political and economic structure, and illustrates the issues in the context of historical events, tracing the development of socialist strategies since the mid-nineteenth century. Several of the conclusions are novel and provocative. Professor Przeworski argues that economic issues cannot justify a socialist programme, and that the workers had good reasons to struggle for the improvement of capitalism. Therefore, the project of a socialist transformation, and the fight for economic advancement, were separate historical phenomena.

The Pharmaceutical Industry and Dependency in the Third World

The Description for this book, The Pharmaceutical Industry and Dependency in the Third World, will be forthcoming.

Unions and Politics in Mexico: The Case of the Automobile Industry

List of tables List of figures Acknowledgements Preface List of abbreviations Map: location of automobile plants 1. Organised labour in Mexico 2. The Mexican automobile industry 3. Wages and workers in the Mexican automobile industry 4. The unions: a historical analysis 5. The unions: power and organisation 6. Control over work processes 7. Union government 8. The labour courts 9. The empirical findings and the dynamics of industrial militancy 10. Unions and political stability in Mexico Notes Bibliography Index.

Mexico: Paradoxes of Stability and Change

A brief political history political institutions, processes, and actors the politics of stability economic and social policy foreign policy - in the giants shadow oil policy - a case study of Mexican development alternative visions of Mexican development.

The Asiatic Mode of Production

A mode of production is defined as an economic formation of society.1 As such it is a twofold classification device; first, it is a means whereby the social whole is related to its economic basis, and therewith, the superstructure to the basis; second, it is the means for the periodization of history. In relating the social whole to the economic basis of the society, one element of the basis is selected out over all the others; this element is the process of social production; the elements of the economy that are set aside for these purposes are the relations of exchange, distribution, and consumption. The reason for the choice of the process of social production as the significant device for relating the whole, the basis and the superstructure, is to be found in the historical dynamics of economic and social development; this has been formulated in connection with the question of periodization. Periodization of history is a device of classification whereby acts and events are grouped together for a purpose, whether stated or unstated, conscious or unconscious. In the theory of the modes of production, the index of the transformation of one historical period into another is given by the changes in the relations of social production in a given epoch; these relations characterize the economic formation of the society as a whole. The mode of production itself is constituted as the system of the forces of production; the forces