The Poverty of Revolution: The State and the Urban Poor in Mexico

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The plight of the urban poor in Mexico has changed little since World War II, despite the country's impressive rate of economic growth. Susan Eckstein considers how market forces and state policies that were ostensibly designed to help the poor have served to maintain their poverty. She draws on intensive research in a center city slum, a squatter

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"Any doubts left about how the PRI and the government co-opt and disarm popular discontent will be dispelled by this material... a work of mature scholarship and a valuable contribution to the growing literature on Third World urbanization and development."--Alejandro Portes, Contemporary Sociology