Leslie Gates
Biographic Data
| ID | 255645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leslie Gates |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leslie |
| FAMILY NAME | Gates |
| SIGNATURE | GATES L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Binghamton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0403-266X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Book Reviewers for Volume 130
Mexican Haunting of Venezuela’s Oil Workers (1912–1948): A Legacy of Capitalist Incorporation
This paper examines early twentieth century labor movements in Venezuela and Mexico that offer an opportunity to better specify how global capitalism can spawn divergent, not just convergent, resistance movements. It zeroes in on the oil workers in the decades when Venezuela became incorporated into global oil production (1912–1948). Their bread and butter demands for improvements to wages and labor conditions paled in comparison to those of thei…
Revolutions in Cuba and Venezuela: One Hope, Two Realities
The Antibusiness Basis of Leftist "Breakthrough" Presidencies in Neoliberal Latin America
Why did so many of Latin America's leftist presidential hopefuls win at the turn of the twenty-first century? Why were they successful at breaking with their neoliberal political establishments when other leaders were not? For five of these leftists, antibusiness sentiment-not just frustration with political failures-boosted support. It catalyzed a backlash against the economic conditions and U.S. architects of neoliberalism to tip the electorate…
Puzzling Politics: A Methodology for Turning World-Systems Analysis Inside-Out
Can world-systems analysis illuminate politics? Can it help explain why illiberal regimes, outsider parties, and anti-immigrant rhetoric seem to be on the rise? Can it help explain any such nationalchanges that seem destined to shift how nations relate to world markets? Leading surveys of historical sociology seem to say no. We disagree. While there are problems with Wallerstein’s early mode of analyzing politicsin the capitalist world-system fro…
Populism: A puzzle without (and for) world-systems analysis
This essay shows how world-systems analysis provides a more rigorous explanation for the recent rise of disparate populisms, countering negative stereotypes of mainstream accounts that obscure how formative populist leaders emerged from authentic progressive movements which challenged capitalists. Existing analyses have also failed to specify the varied economic projects of populists, their likely social bases and their relationships to world mar…
The Success of the Left in Latin America: Untainted Parties, Market Reforms, and Voting Behavior
Towards a bottom-up view of hegemony in a world-systems perspective
Interest groups in Venezuela: Lessons from the failure of a ‘Model Democracy’ and the rise of a Bolivarian democracy
This article uses the Venezuelan case to shed light on the potential role of interest‐group systems in discrediting liberal democracies and to identify challenges that the region's democracies are likely to confront in constructing effective and fair interest‐group systems. It first analyzes the role Venezuela's interest groups played in discrediting its 40‐year two‐party democracy. It argues that the discrediting of a system heralded by many as …
Electing Chavez: The Business of Anti-neoliberal Politics in Venezuela
Theorizing business power in the semiperiphery: Mexico 1970-2000
Genders in Production: Making Workers in Mexico's Global Factories
In this engrossing and original book, Leslie Salzinger takes us with her into the gendered world of Mexico's global factories. Her careful ethnographic work, personal voice, and sophisticated analysis capture the feel of life inside the maquiladoras and make a compelling case that transnational production is a gendered process. The research grounds contemporary feminist theory in an examination of daily practices and provides an important new per…
The Strategic Uses of Gender in Household Negotiations: Women Workers on Mexico's Northern Border
The study illustrates the potential of the 'doing gender' perspective to explain why employment does not always improve women's household-power. Eighteen in-depth interviews with women maquiladora workers in Mexico suggest that, depending on the gendered meanings of household negotiations, employment may help women gain new rights and extend the limits of respect accorded them by male companions and parents. Nevertheless, women were more successf…
Coalition Form and Mobilization Effectiveness in Local Social Movements
Theorizing business power in the semiperiphery: Mexico 1970-2000
The Strategic Uses of Gender in Household Negotiations: Women Workers on Mexico's Northern Border
The study illustrates the potential of the 'doing gender' perspective to explain why employment does not always improve women's household-power. Eighteen in-depth interviews with women maquiladora workers in Mexico suggest that, depending on the gendered meanings of household negotiations, employment may help women gain new rights and extend the limits of respect accorded them by male companions and parents. Nevertheless, women were more successf…
Populism: A puzzle without (and for) world-systems analysis
This essay shows how world-systems analysis provides a more rigorous explanation for the recent rise of disparate populisms, countering negative stereotypes of mainstream accounts that obscure how formative populist leaders emerged from authentic progressive movements which challenged capitalists. Existing analyses have also failed to specify the varied economic projects of populists, their likely social bases and their relationships to world mar…
Interest groups in Venezuela: Lessons from the failure of a ‘Model Democracy’ and the rise of a Bolivarian democracy
This article uses the Venezuelan case to shed light on the potential role of interest‐group systems in discrediting liberal democracies and to identify challenges that the region's democracies are likely to confront in constructing effective and fair interest‐group systems. It first analyzes the role Venezuela's interest groups played in discrediting its 40‐year two‐party democracy. It argues that the discrediting of a system heralded by many as …
Mexican Haunting of Venezuela’s Oil Workers (1912–1948): A Legacy of Capitalist Incorporation
This paper examines early twentieth century labor movements in Venezuela and Mexico that offer an opportunity to better specify how global capitalism can spawn divergent, not just convergent, resistance movements. It zeroes in on the oil workers in the decades when Venezuela became incorporated into global oil production (1912–1948). Their bread and butter demands for improvements to wages and labor conditions paled in comparison to those of thei…
Genders in Production: Making Workers in Mexico's Global Factories
In this engrossing and original book, Leslie Salzinger takes us with her into the gendered world of Mexico's global factories. Her careful ethnographic work, personal voice, and sophisticated analysis capture the feel of life inside the maquiladoras and make a compelling case that transnational production is a gendered process. The research grounds contemporary feminist theory in an examination of daily practices and provides an important new per…
Coalition Form and Mobilization Effectiveness in Local Social Movements
The Strategic Uses of Gender in Household Negotiations: Women Workers on Mexico's Northern Border
The study illustrates the potential of the 'doing gender' perspective to explain why employment does not always improve women's household-power. Eighteen in-depth interviews with women maquiladora workers in Mexico suggest that, depending on the gendered meanings of household negotiations, employment may help women gain new rights and extend the limits of respect accorded them by male companions and parents. Nevertheless, women were more successf…
Genders in Production: Making Workers in Mexico's Global Factories
In this engrossing and original book, Leslie Salzinger takes us with her into the gendered world of Mexico's global factories. Her careful ethnographic work, personal voice, and sophisticated analysis capture the feel of life inside the maquiladoras and make a compelling case that transnational production is a gendered process. The research grounds contemporary feminist theory in an examination of daily practices and provides an important new per…
Theorizing business power in the semiperiphery: Mexico 1970-2000
Electing Chavez: The Business of Anti-neoliberal Politics in Venezuela
Interest groups in Venezuela: Lessons from the failure of a ‘Model Democracy’ and the rise of a Bolivarian democracy
This article uses the Venezuelan case to shed light on the potential role of interest‐group systems in discrediting liberal democracies and to identify challenges that the region's democracies are likely to confront in constructing effective and fair interest‐group systems. It first analyzes the role Venezuela's interest groups played in discrediting its 40‐year two‐party democracy. It argues that the discrediting of a system heralded by many as …
The Success of the Left in Latin America: Untainted Parties, Market Reforms, and Voting Behavior
Towards a bottom-up view of hegemony in a world-systems perspective
Populism: A puzzle without (and for) world-systems analysis
This essay shows how world-systems analysis provides a more rigorous explanation for the recent rise of disparate populisms, countering negative stereotypes of mainstream accounts that obscure how formative populist leaders emerged from authentic progressive movements which challenged capitalists. Existing analyses have also failed to specify the varied economic projects of populists, their likely social bases and their relationships to world mar…
Puzzling Politics: A Methodology for Turning World-Systems Analysis Inside-Out
Can world-systems analysis illuminate politics? Can it help explain why illiberal regimes, outsider parties, and anti-immigrant rhetoric seem to be on the rise? Can it help explain any such nationalchanges that seem destined to shift how nations relate to world markets? Leading surveys of historical sociology seem to say no. We disagree. While there are problems with Wallerstein’s early mode of analyzing politicsin the capitalist world-system fro…
The Antibusiness Basis of Leftist "Breakthrough" Presidencies in Neoliberal Latin America
Why did so many of Latin America's leftist presidential hopefuls win at the turn of the twenty-first century? Why were they successful at breaking with their neoliberal political establishments when other leaders were not? For five of these leftists, antibusiness sentiment-not just frustration with political failures-boosted support. It catalyzed a backlash against the economic conditions and U.S. architects of neoliberalism to tip the electorate…
Mexican Haunting of Venezuela’s Oil Workers (1912–1948): A Legacy of Capitalist Incorporation
This paper examines early twentieth century labor movements in Venezuela and Mexico that offer an opportunity to better specify how global capitalism can spawn divergent, not just convergent, resistance movements. It zeroes in on the oil workers in the decades when Venezuela became incorporated into global oil production (1912–1948). Their bread and butter demands for improvements to wages and labor conditions paled in comparison to those of thei…
Revolutions in Cuba and Venezuela: One Hope, Two Realities
Book Reviewers for Volume 130
Political science (13 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Latin Americans (4 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (4 works) · World Systems and Global Transformations (4 works)