"Contains 34 contributions by many distinguished social scientists including Barkin, A. Bartra, Paré, Warman, Oswald, Esteva, Gordillo, and De la Peña. Papers were presented at a 1987 interdisciplinary conference in Zamora (Guanajuato), and are grouped in six categories: rural society towards the end of the century, rural policies, survival alternatives, organization of producers, old and new rural actors, and the future of rural Mexico"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.