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Record Nr.

UNINA9910876985103321

Autore

Walton John <1937->

Titolo

Free markets & food riots : the politics of global adjustment / / John Walton & David Seddon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, UK ; ; Cambridge, Mass., : Blackwell, 1994

ISBN

1-281-84075-0

9786611840754

0-470-71296-1

0-470-71271-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (398 p.)

Collana

Studies in urban and social change

Altri autori (Persone)

SeddonDavid

Disciplina

303.4

339.5/09172/4

Soggetti

Structural adjustment (Economic policy) - Developing countries

Free trade - Developing countries

Social conflict - Developing countries

Capitalism - Developing countries

Post-communism - Europe, Eastern

Economic history - 1971-1990

Economic history - 1990-

Developing countries Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-365) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Free Markets & Food Riots: The Politics of Global Adjustment; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Part I Introduction; 1 Global Adjustment; 2 Food Riots Past and Present; Part II Case Studies; 3 Fighting for Survival: Women's Responses to Austerity Programs; 4 Latin America: Popular Protest and the State; 5 Economic Adjustment and Democratization in Africa; 6 The Middle East and North Africa; 7 The Asian Debt Crisis: Structural Adjustment and Popular Protest in India; 8 Explaining Sri Lanka's Exceptionalism: Popular Responses to Welfarism and the "Open Economy"

9 The Politics of Economic Reform in Central and Eastern EuropePart III Conclusion; 10 Debt Crisis and Democratic Transition; Bibliography;



Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book describes and explains the extraordinary wave of popular protest that swept across the so-called Third World and the countries of the former socialist bloc during the period from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, in response to the mounting debt crisis and the austerity measures widely adopted as part of economic ""reform"" and ""adjustment"". Explores this general proposition in a cross-national study of the austerity protests, or the 'IMF Riots' that have affected so many debtor nations since the mid-1970sArgues that modern austerity protests, like the class