03604nam 2200745Ia 450 991087698510332120200520144314.01-281-84075-097866118407540-470-71296-10-470-71271-6(CKB)1000000000554815(EBL)366883(OCoLC)476202178(SSID)ssj0000158101(PQKBManifestationID)11155945(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000158101(PQKBWorkID)10140359(PQKB)11160378(MiAaPQ)EBC366883(EXLCZ)99100000000055481519930721d1994 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFree markets & food riots the politics of global adjustment /John Walton & David SeddonOxford, UK ;Cambridge, Mass. Blackwell19941 online resource (398 p.)Studies in urban and social changeDescription based upon print version of record.0-631-18245-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-365) and index.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; IndexThis 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 classStudies in urban and social change.Free markets and foot riotsStructural adjustment (Economic policy)Developing countriesFree tradeDeveloping countriesSocial conflictDeveloping countriesCapitalismDeveloping countriesPost-communismEurope, EasternEconomic history1971-1990Economic history1990-Developing countriesEconomic conditionsStructural adjustment (Economic policy)Free tradeSocial conflictCapitalismPost-communismEconomic historyEconomic history303.4339.5/09172/4Walton John1937-1764258Seddon David122998MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910876985103321Free markets & food riots4205039UNINA