Power play
Subtitle: the fight to control the world's electricity
By: Sharon Beder
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by W.W. Norton
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
Subjects: Electric utilities -- Government policy -- Case studies; Electric utilities -- Deregulation -- Case studies; Electric utilities -- Corrupt practices -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Description: Analysis of the privatization of electric power all over the world, and the consequences of this for ordinary human beings.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-380) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: PART ONE:
title: Power politics in the United States before deregulation; label: 1
title: Utilities Set the Agenda, 1900-1925
pagenum: 22; label: 2
title: Power Propaganda Between the Wars
pagenum: 36; label: 3
title: Struggle for Control Before the Second World War
pagenum: 53; label: 4
title: Continuing Propaganda after the War
pagenum: 69; label: PART TWO:
title: The United States deregulates and markets rule; label: 5
title: Driving Deregulation
pagenum: 86; label: 6
title: Deregulation in California
pagenum: 101; label: 7
title: Federal Politics
pagenum: 121; label: 8
title: Enron on the Rise
pagenum: 142; label: 9
title: Enron in Trouble
pagenum: 164; label: PART THREE:
title: The British Experiment; label: 10
title: Electricity Supply, 1900-1980
pagenum: 180; label: 11
title: The Ideology and Rhetoric of Privatisation
pagenum: 193; label: 12
title: Privatisation in Practice
pagenum: 205; label: PART FOUR:
title: Australia: a dedicated follower of fashion; label: 13
title: Privatisation in Victoria
pagenum: 224; label: 14
title: The National Electricity Market
pagenum: 241; label: 15
title: Australia-wide Deregulation
pagenum: 256; label: PART FIVE:
title: Free markets to far-flung corners; label: 16
title: International Pressure to Privatise
pagenum: 276; label: 17
title: Independent Power Producers
pagenum: 289; label: 18
title: Enron in India
pagenum: 302; label: 19
title: Brazil
pagenum: 313; label: CONCLUSION; title: The Great Electric Confidence Trick
pagenum: 325; title: Notes
pagenum: 341; title: Index
pagenum: 385