Social movements and free-market capitalism in Latin America
Subtitle: telecommunications privatization and the rise of consumer protest
By: Sybil Rhodes.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Consumer protection -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century.; Protest movements -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century.; Privatization -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century.; Telecommunication -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Consumer movements; title: Explaining the emergence of consumer movements; title: Authoritarian privatization and delayed consumer mobilization in Chile; title: The "original sins" of privatization in Argentina; title: Contentious consumer mobilization in Argentina; title: The gradual and contested privatization of Brazil's "Telessauro"; title: "Post-Jurassic" regulation and contained consumer response; title: Democratizing free-market capitalism.