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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451804003321

Autore

Rhodes Sybil <1969->

Titolo

Social movements and free-market capitalism in Latin  America [[electronic resource] ] : telecommunications privatization and the rise of  consumer protest / / Sybil Rhodes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2006

ISBN

0-7914-8258-8

1-4237-4790-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

384/.041

Soggetti

Consumer protection - Latin America - History - 20th century

Protest movements - Latin America - History - 20th century

Telecommunication - Privatization - Latin America - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-214) and  index.

Nota di contenuto

Consumer movements -- Explaining the emergence of consumer movements -- Authoritarian privatization and delayed consumer mobilization in Chile -- The "original sins" 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.