03610nam 2200625Ia 450 991080767340332120240417034650.00-7914-8258-81-4237-4790-9(CKB)1000000000459178(OCoLC)461442491(CaPaEBR)ebrary10579145(SSID)ssj0000247539(PQKBManifestationID)11195974(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000247539(PQKBWorkID)10215484(PQKB)11435400(MiAaPQ)EBC3407722(MdBmJHUP)muse6340(Au-PeEL)EBL3407722(CaPaEBR)ebr10579145(OCoLC)923407738(DE-B1597)683946(DE-B1597)9780791482582(EXLCZ)99100000000045917820041213d2006 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrSocial movements and free-market capitalism in Latin America[electronic resource] telecommunications privatization and the rise of consumer protest /Sybil Rhodes1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20061 online resource (241 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7914-6597-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-214) and index.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.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.Consumer protectionLatin AmericaHistory20th centuryProtest movementsLatin AmericaHistory20th centuryTelecommunicationPrivatizationLatin AmericaHistory20th centuryConsumer protectionHistoryProtest movementsHistoryTelecommunicationPrivatizationHistory384/.041Rhodes Sybil1969-596116MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807673403321Social movements and free-market capitalism in Latin America4067540UNINA