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City, Class and Trade: Social and Economic Change in the Third World
City Class and Trade Social and Economic Change in the Third World Author:Nigel Harris The emergence of a single world economy in the late 20th century has shifted economic management from the state to a global system that subordinates an increasing array of activities to market criteria with profound implications for the less developed countries. — These essays, published in association with the Development Planning Unit, Universi... more »ty College, London, are concerned with the practical and theoretical issues involved in this change. They cover a range of subjects including future patterns of urbanization; problems of urban planning; the emergence of new bourgeoisies in Asian and Latin American countries; the new international labour proletariat of labour migrants; theories of unequal exchange; and the flows of trade, capital and labour on the Pacific rim.
The essays challenge many of the orthodoxies of development theory, and argue towards the reconstruction of a socialist position.« less