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Social movements and free-market capitalism in Latin America : telecommunications privatization and the rise of consumer protest /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rhodes, Sybil, 1969-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2006]
Subjects:
Consumer protection > Latin America > History > 20th century.
Protest movements > Latin America > History > 20th century.
Privatization > Latin America > History > 20th century.
Telecommunication > Latin America > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Consumer movements
  • Explaining the emergence of consumer movements
  • Authoritarian privatization and delayed consumer mobilization in Chile
  • The "original sin" of privatization in Argentina
  • Contentious consumer mobilization in Argentina
  • The gradual and contested privatization of Brazil's "Telessauro"
  • "Post-Jurassic" regulation and contained consumer response
  • Democratizing free-market capitalism.