POLS 196 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Washington Consensus, States Of Germany, Reform War

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 196
• Professor: Bradley Bauerly

Document Summary

Floriculture expanded in colombia and ecuador: columbia was the largest latin american producer of cut flowers. Three out of five cut flowers in the us from there. Earlier expansion of commercial agriculture and the oil boom pushed peasants off of their land, which created available land for industrial production of cut flowers: land reform laws rescinded in 1994, concentrating land. State built up infrastructure through loans an investment as well as through building institutions to manage floriculture. The rapid growth in colombia and ecuador led to saturation and decreased profits, putting pressures that increased the exploitation of workers because of competition: many industrial hazards, low wages, use of child and female labor. Broke down expanded families: use of temporary workers and subcontracting. Chile is presented as a success story of neoliberalism and the washington consensus formula: brutality of the pinochet dictatorship forced restructuring, massive increases in export sector.