HILA 132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Rops, United Nations Economic Commission For Latin America And The Caribbean, Bracero Program
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: economic growth, everyday life, and social movements. Economic commission of latin america and the caribbean (eclac) Promote the accumulation of the wealth in the hands of the few: around 1910: shift as people around the world saw this economic model of unfettered, capitalistic development as damaging to society. U. s. : policies implemented to limit this sort of spread that was threatening the health of consumers. Labor reform, outlawing of child labor, epa, etc. Government served to put people back into a safe and productive working environment: cardenas tried to fit this type of reform so that it can help the working people. All of the wealth created in the 19th, early 20th centuries was going abroad to big industrialists in the u. s. and europe (think henequen, oil, mining, cash crops) Foreign elites were progressing fro(cid:373) lati(cid:374) a(cid:373)eri(cid:272)a"s toils. Left latin america without any of its own industries.
