Reconsidering Social Alternatives for Rural Mexico: Peasant and Indigenous Strategies

Abstract

With the inability of international economic integration to create opportunities for important segments of society, many Mexicans are searching for ways to forge their own alternatives. These strategies are the concrete manifestations of the aknowledgment that the “mainstream” path of the search for proletarian employment is no longer viable, and that a return to traditional forms of cooperation, organized around mechanisms of ecosystem’s management might offer a greater security and a better quality of life.