Estratificación y Desigualdad en la Seguridad Social Latinoamericana: Perú

Mesa-Lago, Carmelo, Estratificación y Desigualdad en la Seguridad Social Latinoamericana: Perú, Volume 11 of Latin America Studies Occasional Papers, Center for Latin American Studies, 1975.

Este ensayo se compone de tres partes. En la primera se presenta un modelo general (que incluye una serie de hipótesis) sobre la estratificación de la seguridad social en la América Latina, o sea, como existen diversos sistemas de seguro social con grados de protección desigual para distintos segmentos de la fuerza laboral. Dos aspectos fundamentales de esta primera parte son: la identificación y descripción de tres tipos de grupos de presión (“político”, “económico” y “sindical”) y su función como generadores del sistema de estratificación; y el análisis de las desigualdades resultantes de dicho sistema y como afectan a la nación. Las partes segunda y tercera del ensayo aplican el modelo y las hipótesis anteriores al Perú. En la segunda parte se analiza el papel que los grupos de presión en dicho país han desempeñado en el proceso de estratificación del seguro social. En la tercera y ultima parte se aportan cifras para evaluar las desigualdades existentes entre dichos grupos.

Educational Research; The English-Speaking Caribbean

Miller, Errol L., Educational Research; The English-Speaking Caribbean, Ottawa, Canada: International Development Research Centre, 1984.

Online PDF copy.

From the Foreword by Susanne Mowat:

Errol Miller in this book argues the case for assigning a higher priority to educational research than it has enjoyed so far. He is well equipped by training and experience to do so. His training in research came first from the University of the West Indies with further development at a North American university. The experience he gained through his academic activities as a lecturer at the University of the West Indies was subsequently enlarged by experiences in educational administration, both as principal of a teachers' college and as Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education in Jamaica. He was thus able to evaluate for himself, in a setting where he exercised responsibility, the role of educational research in forming and helping shape policy. Overall, the author takes a critical, but optimistic, look at the state of the art in the region, taking note not only of some sound early endeavors but also of the existence of a useful infrastructure. Funding for research will continue to be crucial, he argues, as will be growing independence from external funding and greater reliance on domestic support. This latter will depend, as will the ultimate role to be played by educational research, on the climate for research, which means the set of attitudes and the commitment to using and respecting the fruits of educational research that the region is able to generate.

A Bibliography of Caribbean Migration, and Caribbean immigrant communities

Brana-Shute, Rosemary, with the assistance of Rosemarijn Hoefte, A Bibliography of Caribbean Migration, and Caribbean immigrant communities, Gainesville : Reference and Bibliographic [sic] Dept., University of Florida Libraries in cooperation with the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, 1983. {Another copy}

From the Acknowledgements:

The bibliographical search actually began in January of 1982 with a search of the computerized databases accessible at the University of Florida Libraries. In addition, a questionnaire to solicit bibliographic data was mailed to about five hundred people known to be or thought to be working on some aspect of Caribbean migration.

Reviewed in Social and Economic Studies © 1985.

El Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 1955 - 1973

Alegría, Ricardo E., El Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 1955 - 1973, San Juan: El Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 1978.

The Institute of Puerto Rican Culture (Spanish: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña), or ICP, for short, is an institution of the Government of Puerto Rico responsible for the establishment of the cultural policies required in order to study, preserve, promote, enrich, and diffuse the cultural values of Puerto Rico.[1] Since October 1992, its headquarters have been located at the site of the old colonial Spanish Welfare House in Old San Juan.[2] The ICP was created by order of Law Number 89, signed June 21, 1955, and it started operating in November of that year. Its first Executive Director was Dr. Ricardo Alegría

El Caribe en Cifras

Rodríguez Cruz, Juan, El Caribe en Cifras, separata de The Caribbean In Transition, Rio Piedras: Institute of Caribbean Studies, 1965.

De la introducción:

El propósito de las siguientes tablas estadísticas es el de facilitar en forma breve y a vuelo de pájaro una visión socio-económica aproximada de cada una de las islas y territorios adyacentes al Caribe.

Frantz Fanon: A Critical Study

Gendzier, Irene L., Frantz Fanon: A Critical Study, New York: Pantheon Books, 1973.

See also Middle East Journal © 1974.

From the Author’s Preface and Acknowledgements:

The research for this study was carried out in the United States, France and Algeria, and it is based largely on works written by and about Frantz Fanon, on interviews held with members of his family and with friends and political associates, and on a part of the massive literature devoted to the Algerian Revolution. Without the help of numerous Algerians, both friends and officials, and I include residents of Algeria among them, there is little doubt that I would have learned considerably less and seen less of the people and places that were important to this study. There is a good deal left undone, though, notably a meeting with Mrs. Josie Fanon, who, in spite of attempts to meet, made it clear that she had had a surfeit of Fanon followers. More accessible were Mr. and Mrs. Joby Fanon, Dr. and Mrs. Françoise Tosquelles, Maître Marcel Manville, and the journalists, writers, and friends who made these and other interviews possible and who were often themselves valuable sources of information.

Irene Gendzier writes on subjects of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and problems of development. Her works include: Notes From the Minefield: United States Intervention in Lebanon and the Middle East, 1945-1958 (Columbia U Press, 1998; pbk.Westview Press, 1999); Development Against Democracy (Tyrone Press, 1995; previously:: Managing Political Change: Social Scientists and the Third World (Westview, 1985); Frantz Fanon: A Critical Study Pantheon (1973; revised ed. Evergreen, 1985); “Play it Again Sam: The Practice and Apology of Development,” in Christopher Simpson, ed., Universities and Empire (New Press, 1998); “Culture and Development: Veiled Apologetic or an Effort at Social Reconstruction of Economic and Political Change,” in The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, (summer 1989,13,2). “Democracy, Deception, and the Arms Trade: The U.S. Iraq, and Weapons of Mass Destruction,” in Crimes of War: Iraq, edited by Richard Falk, Irene Gendzier, and Robert Jay Lifton, (Nation Books, 2006). Irene Gendzier is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Boston University.

La Junta de La Habana en 1808

Ponte Domínguez, Francisco, La Junta de La Habana en 1808, La Habana: Editorial Guerrero 1947.

A manera de Prólogo:

Breves palabras en justificación del tema. Motiva esta monografía la distinta apreciación que de un mismo evento de nuestro pasado colonial hiciera el doctor Vidal Morales y Morales, historiógrafo cubano de positivo valer. El fue quien primero hurgó en los archivos de la Isla compulsando datos, acotando citas, e interpretando el verdadero sentido de los documentos. Como fruto de su tesonera labor intelectual pudo ofrecer libros de obligada consulta al investigador perspicaz de la ciencia histórica. Sin embargo, en el breve lapso de tres años comenta, de modo diverso, el propósito perseguido con el intento de erección de una Junta Superior de Gobierno, por las personas representativas de La Habana, a fines de julio de 1808.

En un sesudo articulo, inserto en la revista El Fígaro a raíz de la instalación del régimen autonómico en Cuba, Vidal Morales sustenta el criterio de que el proyecto de Junta provincial “no era otro que el establecimiento de un gobierno autonómico”; y concreta, a continuación, sus rasgos esenciales. Poco después, en 1901, al publicar su obra mas trascendente, con el sugestivo titulo Iniciadores y Primeros Mártires de la Revolución Cubana, quizás al calor de la nueva época política del país, dijo de aquel conato de Junta o Cámara de Notables “que probablemente hubiera dado por resultado la independencia de esta Isla”.

La primera tesis acoge, en verdad, el pensamiento de los dirigentes políticos de La Habana que idearon esa asamblea comunal con la más pura intención de fidelidad a la Metrópoli española. El ultimo parecer concuerda, en cambio, con sus obcecados opositores, los que calificaron como “tiránica e independiente” la frustrada Junta, para así denigrar el orden publico de la Colonia a los autores de la iniciativa progresista. A dilucidar el proceso evolutivo y finalidad real que animaba a los promotores de esa asamblea de patricios en la Habana, durante aquellos días cruciales de la gobernación política y económica insular, tiende este modesto ensayo.