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020 $a0791465977 (hardcover : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)OCM57236273
035 $a(NNC)5476591
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050 00 $aHC130.C63$bR48 2006
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100 1 $aRhodes, Sybil,$d1969-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004152526
245 10 $aSocial movements and free-market capitalism in Latin America :$btelecommunications privatization and the rise of consumer protest /$cSybil Rhodes.
260 $aAlbany :$bState University of New York Press,$c[2006], ©2006.
300 $axii, 228 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 193-214) and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tConsumer movements : new social and political actors in Latin America -- $gCh. 2.$tExplaining the emergence of consumer movements : the "crossed wires" effect of democratization and privatization -- $gCh. 3.$tAuthoritarian privatization and delayed consumer mobilization in Chile -- $gCh. 4.$tThe "original sin" of privatization in Argentina -- $gCh. 5.$tContentious consumer mobilization in Argentina -- $gCh. 6.$tThe gradual and contested privatization of Brazil's "Telessauro" -- $gCh. 7.$t"Post-Jurassic" regulation and contained consumer response -- $gCh. 8.$tDemocratizing free-market capitalism : consumers and the codevelopment of "voice" and "exit"
520 1 $a"This innovative book examines how the privatization and reregulation of the telecommunications sectors in Chile, Argentina, and Brazil in the 1980s and 1990s provoked the rise of new consumer protest movements in Latin America. Sybil Rhodes looks at how hasty privatization of state-owned telephone companies led to short-term economic windfalls for multinational corporations but long-term instability due to consumer movements or the threat of them. Eventually these governments implemented consumer-friendly regulation as a belated form of damage control. In contrast, governments that privatized through more gradual, democratic processes were able to make credible commitments to their citizens as well as to their multinational investors by including regulatory regimes with consumer protection mechanisms built in. Rhodes illustrates how consumers - previously unacknowledged actors in studies of social movements, market reforms, and democratizations in and beyond Latin America - are indispensable to understanding the political and social implications of these broad global trends."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aConsumer protection$zLatin America$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aProtest movements$zLatin America$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aPrivatization$zLatin America$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aTelecommunication$zLatin America$xHistory$y20th century.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip055/2004029611.html
852 00 $boff,bus$hHC130.C63$iR48 2006