LEADER 03610nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910807673403321 005 20240417034650.0 010 $a0-7914-8258-8 010 $a1-4237-4790-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000459178 035 $a(OCoLC)461442491 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10579145 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000247539 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11195974 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000247539 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10215484 035 $a(PQKB)11435400 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407722 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse6340 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407722 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10579145 035 $a(OCoLC)923407738 035 $a(DE-B1597)683946 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780791482582 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000459178 100 $a20041213d2006 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSocial movements and free-market capitalism in Latin America$b[electronic resource] $etelecommunications privatization and the rise of consumer protest /$fSybil Rhodes 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (241 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7914-6597-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 193-214) and index. 327 $aConsumer 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. 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aConsumer protection$zLatin America$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aProtest movements$zLatin America$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aTelecommunication$xPrivatization$zLatin America$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aConsumer protection$xHistory 615 0$aProtest movements$xHistory 615 0$aTelecommunication$xPrivatization$xHistory 676 $a384/.041 700 $aRhodes$b Sybil$f1969-$0596116 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807673403321 996 $aSocial movements and free-market capitalism in Latin America$94067540 997 $aUNINA