Industrial Colonialism in Latin America

Víctor Manuel Figueroa Sepúlveda (Ph.D., 1980) is a researcher and professor at the Political Science Graduate Program at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico. His decades of reasearch have produced original and provocative theses on the region’s development and his book Reinterpretando el subdesarrollo: Trabajo general, clase y fuerza productiva en América Latina (Siglo XXI, 1986) was a pioneering work in the field.

• AcknowledgementsPrologue by R.A. Dello BuonoIntroduction Chapter 1: Imperialism and Industrial ColonialismMonopoly, the Role of Science and the Function of the StateSocial Relations of Production and Foreign TradeThe Workings of Industrial ColonialismImperialism and NatureChapter 2: Imperialism at the Third StageKey Aspects of CrisisThe “Globalization” StrategyFrom 1995 ForwardCapital and NatureChapter 3: The Pattern of Industrial ColonialismBarriers to Regional Appropriation of Scientific Knowledge for ProductionNational Innovation Systems in Latin AmericaThe Universities in the RegionExternal Limits to Export-led Economic GrowthThe Different Functional Roles within the RegionInternal ContradictionsPolitical Regimes at the Third StageClimate Change in Latin AmericaChapter 4: Industrial Colonialism and Surpluses of PopulationThe Over-Supply of Labor-Power and Surplus-Population TheoryDeficits and Surpluses of PopulationThe Surpluses of Population and their ActivitiesRelative Surpluses of Population at the Level of Goods Production and RepairsRelative Surpluses in the Sphere of Commodity CirculationSurpluses of Population beyond Capital ValorizationWhat about Home Labor?The Nature of the Latin American Migrant Worker and the Historical RecordRemittances and Wage DifferentialsThe Indigenous PopulationChaper 5: Industrial Colonialism and Peasant ProductionThe Social Character of Peasant ProductionFrom Peasant Production to Infra-subsistence ProductionSocial Impacts of Neoliberalism on the CountrysideBibliographyAppendix: The Underlying Causes of Underdevelopment in Latin AmericaSubject IndexName Index