LEADER 03604nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9911018807503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $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 $a19930721d1994 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFree markets & food riots $ethe politics of global adjustment /$fJohn Walton & David Seddon 210 $aOxford, UK ;$aCambridge, Mass. $cBlackwell$d1994 215 $a1 online resource (398 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in urban and social change 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-631-18245-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [339]-365) and index. 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 $aThis book describes and explains the extraordinary wave of popular protest that swept across the so-called Third World and the countries of the former socialist bloc during the period from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, in response to the mounting debt crisis and the austerity measures widely adopted as part of economic ""reform"" and ""adjustment"". Explores this general proposition in a cross-national study of the austerity protests, or the 'IMF Riots' that have affected so many debtor nations since the mid-1970sArgues that modern austerity protests, like the class 410 0$aStudies in urban and social change. 517 3 $aFree markets and foot riots 606 $aStructural adjustment (Economic policy)$zDeveloping countries 606 $aFree trade$zDeveloping countries 606 $aSocial conflict$zDeveloping countries 606 $aCapitalism$zDeveloping countries 606 $aPost-communism$zEurope, Eastern 606 $aEconomic history$y1971-1990 606 $aEconomic history$y1990- 607 $aDeveloping countries$xEconomic conditions 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 0$aEconomic history 676 $a303.4 676 $a339.5/09172/4 700 $aWalton$b John$f1937-$01838842 701 $aSeddon$b David$0122998 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911018807503321 996 $aFree markets & food riots$94417921 997 $aUNINA