Pasado y futuro

"Examines in great detail economic policy-making during the presidency of Alfonsín. Sees the administration's ultimate failure occurring due to the attempts to make social pacts with the corporatist bodies representing labor, agriculture, and industry. Author believes that the administration lost its credibility by attempting policies that had little chance of success"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

"Interviews with residents in poor neighborhoods of Buenos Aires are used to assess effectiveness of existing social programs and to delineate areas in need of further attention"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Telephone Workers' Union; development of unions during 1920s, political maturing; power of General Confederation of Workers; effect of the Depression, rise of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini; Peron's relationship with organized labor, especially 1944-1945; formation and dissolution of Labor Party.

Estudio en el que se exponen cr ticamente los factores hist ricos, tecnol gicos, econ micos y pol ticos de la transferencia de tecnolog a en el proceso de industrializaci n argentino. Katz ofrece y plantea ideas, modelos y opciones que intentan renovar los criterios Para el futuro inmediato.