LEADER 03623nam 22007573u 450 001 9910144128303321 005 20210114042227.0 010 $a1-281-84075-0 010 $a9786611840754 010 $a0-470-71296-1 010 $a0-470-71271-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000554815 035 $a(EBL)366883 035 $a(OCoLC)476202178 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000158101 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11155945 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000158101 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10140359 035 $a(PQKB)11160378 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC366883 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000554815 100 $a20130418d2008|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFree Markets and Food Riots$b[electronic resource] $eThe Politics of Global Adjustment 210 $aHoboken $cJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd.$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (398 p.) 225 0 $aStudies in urban and social change Free markets & food riots 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-631-18245-4 327 $aFree 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" 327 $a9 The Politics of Economic Reform in Central and Eastern EuropePart III Conclusion; 10 Debt Crisis and Democratic Transition; Bibliography; Index 330 $aThis 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 606 $aStructural adjustment (Economic policy) 606 $aStructural adjustment (Economic policy)$y1971-1990$zDeveloping countries 606 $aFree trade$y1990-$zDeveloping countries 606 $aSocial conflict$zDeveloping countries 606 $aCapitalism$zDeveloping countries 606 $aPost-communism$zEurope, Eastern 606 $aEconomic history 606 $aBusiness & Economics$2HILCC 606 $aEconomic History$2HILCC 608 $aElectronic books. 615 4$aStructural adjustment (Economic policy). 615 0$aStructural adjustment (Economic policy) 615 0$aFree trade 615 0$aSocial conflict 615 0$aCapitalism 615 0$aPost-communism 615 0$aEconomic history 615 7$aBusiness & Economics 615 7$aEconomic History 676 $a303.4 676 $a339.5/09172/4 700 $aWalton$b John K$0989293 701 $aSeddon$b David$0122998 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910144128303321 996 $aFree Markets and Food Riots$92266788 997 $aUNINA