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This study examines how Puerto Rico's industrial development process has shaped and been shaped by the state, relations with Washington, and Puerto Rican society, especially in light of the economic crises of the 1970s and 1980s. Sherrie Baver posits that Puerto Rico's extreme integration into the U.S. political economy was an unintended consequence of the development model, and that its result has been a state whose tasks, such as securing an environment for private capital accumulation and income redistribution, have become increasingly regulated by the federal government, challenging Puerto Rico's commonwealth status. Recommended for scholars of Latin American Politics and Third World Development.

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• Tables
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• The Colonial State and Industrial Change
• The State and Industrialization in the Munoz Era Declining State
• Autonomy in the Post-Munoz Era
• The State and the "Petrochemical Revolution"
• The State, Industrial Incentives, and the Case of Section 936
• Puerto Rico and the Caribbean Basin Initiative: A New Industrial Development
• Policy for the Island?
• Economic Change and Puerto Rico's Future
• Bibliography Index

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Baver concentrates on the fate of "Operation Bootstrap," the effort of the Puerto Rican government to industrialize the islands, in the 1960s through the 1990s. After having great success in the first decade and a half after WW II, it clearly fared less well subsequently, and the author explores why this was the case. Baver reviews the effort in the 1960s to orient Puerto Rican industrialization away from light consumer goods to petroleum refining and petrochemicals (an effort that fell much short of its goals) and describes efforts of the Puerto Rican authorities to find a place for the island in the Reagan Caribbean Basin Initiative. Baver's thesis is that, in basing industrialization principally on mainland firms producing goods for the US market, the Puerto Rican planners tied the Puerto Rican economy even closer to that of the mainland than had been the case when it was based on sugar production. Puerto Rican industrialization came to depend principally on the island's exemption from certain federal legislation. Puerto Rican authorities were reduced largely to lobbying Congress and federal administrators as a means of protecting and expanding the island's industries. The author traces both the resultant growth of statehood sentiment, and the unsuccessful efforts of governments headed by the pro-Commonwealth Popular Democractic party to "expand" Commonwealth status. Graduate; faculty. R. J. Alexander; Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick

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SHERRIE L. BAVER is Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the City College, City University of New York. She has published several articles on Puerto Rican studies.