Conciencia y sociedad industrial; Dilemas y decisiones en el desarrollo social; Libertad y agresión en la sociedad tecnológica; Sindicalismo y política; El socialismo difícil; El colonialismo por dentro y por fuera, y América Latina frente a la sociedad industrial son los temas tratados en este volumen, junto con las discusiones que suscitaron.

The authors trace out the development of capitalism and U.S. imperialism in Latin America in the latest phase of this development, from the installation of the new world order of neoliberal globalization in the early 1980s to the present when U.S. imperialism is held at bay, neoliberalism is in decline, and capitalism is in crisis.

This study examines fundamental theoretical and conceptual issues of social change in Latin America in the context of detailed empirical analysis. It challenges the major assumptions and propositions that underlie globalization theory, reworking and fine tuning the concepts of imperialism and social class as relevant to understanding the 'new world order'. The study centers on the structural features of Latin America and the state policies reconcentrating power in the capitalist class at the expense of labor. The study surveys the contradictory tendencies of concentrated wealth and power and the emergence of new socio-political movements and alternative development strategies to the dominant paradigm.