Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
1. Two Souths in the New Global Order-Richard Tardanico and Mark B. Rosenberg
2. From Free Market Rhetoric to Free Market Reality: The Future of the U.S. South in an Era of Globalization-Amy K. Glasmeier and Robin Leichenko
3. The Impact
of NAFTA and the WTO on Southern Mexico: Hypotheses and Preliminary Evidence-Michael E. Conroy and Sarah Elizabeth West
SECTORAL AND GEOGRAPHIC CASE STUDIES
4. The Mexico-U.S. Apparel Connection: Economic Dualism and Transnational Networks-Gary Gereffi
5. Local Economic
Development and Transnational Restructuring: The Case of Export-Assembly Manufacturing in Yucatan-Patricia A. Wilson and Thea Kayne
6. Politico-Economic Restructuring and Mexico's Small Coffee Farmers-Robert Porter
7. Work and Immigration: Winter Vegetable Production in South
Florida-David Griffith
8. Politics of Decentralization and Rural Poverty: Municipal Solidarity Funds and Community Participation in Oaxaca-Jonathan Fox and Josefina Aranda
9. The Local Matters: The Port of New Orleans Responds to Global Restructuring-Alma H. Young
10. Employment
Transformations in Mexican and U.S. Gulf Cities-Bryan Roberts and Richard Tardanico
CONCLUSION
11. Poverty or Development?-Richard Tardanico
underway in the "souths" of North American societies (Jeremy Adelman, Director, Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton University)
are interested not only in charting the course of globalization but alos in development policies that will transform it (June C. Nash, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, City College of New York and Graduate Center)
bi-national Gulf Coast region. The book underscores the critical importance of government action in suporting the interests of specific groups, economic sectors, and localities in a globalizing economy, supporting the conclusion that "globalization" is very much an unfinished project
(Michael Peter Smith, Professor of Community Studies and Development, University of California, Davis)
Its various chapters are so expertly integrated that it is hard to tell it is an edited collection (Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Department of Sociology, Princeton University)
globalization generally (Saskia Sassen, author of Globalization and Its Discontents)