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Trends and Issues in Latin American Urban Research, 1965-1970
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2022
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It has for years been accepted that as Latin American countries urbanize and industrialize, the proportion of people employed in tertiary (“services”) categories relative to those in secondary (manufacturing, construction) increases more swiftly than in the nineteenth-century industrial countries. This is usually taken to mean that urbanization here “outruns” industrialization, that people are released from precarious rural occupations faster than stable secondary-sector jobs are created for them. The situation is aggravated by the introduction of advanced technology that allows high worker-output ratios and by the lack of possibilities for migration abroad such as relieved Europe of 55 million “excess” persons in the period 1750-1939. Table 5 shows that although the per cent of Latin Americans working in factories more than doubled in the period 1925-60, thus increasing much more sharply than the per cent of city dwellers, the total share employed in manufacturing barely increased at all—and in fact shaded off in the 1950s—because of a relative drop in artisans.
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- Copyright © 1971 by the University of Texas Press
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The author is deeply indebted to the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences for invaluable support and assistance that made possible substantial revision of an earlier version of this part of the article. Of the colleagues in many countries who have generously given information and counsel he wishes to make special mention of Dr. Jorge E. Hardoy. Part I of this article appeared in LARR, Spring 1971.
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