Endogenous-alternative production in Latin America an alternative hypothesis to informal sector analysis

The hypothesis proposed in this thesis advocates the view that capitalism as a system of production is undergoing drastic changes which affect the current economic and political conjuncture and indicate a transition away from capitalism. This thesis examines those changes which occur at the level of history which support this thesis and correspond to mutations to material social relations as they manifest specifically in regard to agrarian areas. The historical period examined is the last quarter of the 20 th century and beginning of the 21st as it relates to these social relations of production in Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia and Mexico.;The purpose of this work is to propose a different conceptualization of relations of production that more adequately describes the areas examined and which the author refers to as endogenous-alternative production. This hypothesis stems from a critique of the work by Hernando De Soto and Victor Tokman in relation to the informal sector in Latin America.