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Author Chollett, Donna L

Title Neoliberalism, social exclusion, and social movements : resistance and dissent in Mexico's sugar industry / Donna L. Chollett
Published Lanham : Lexington Books, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 239 pages)
Contents List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Theorizing "Global-Local" Relations; 2 Constructing the Cultural-Historical Matrix of Cane Production; 3 The Cultural Construction of Cane Production in Puruarán; 4 The Neoliberal Turn & Privatization of Mexico's Sugar Industry; 5 NAFTA and the Neo-Globalization of Sugar; 6 Reclaiming Power and Forging Alternatives; 7 The Legal Interlude and Regeneration of the Social Movement; 8 The Precarious Fate of Ingenio Puruarán; 9 Resistance under Circumstances Not of Their Own Choosing
10 "Like an Ox Yoke:" The Myth of Intrinsically Virtuous Social MovementsChronology of the Social Movement; Acronyms and Spanish Terms; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Summary Neoliberalism, Social Exclusion, and Social Movements critically examines struggles for social justice in an era of neoliberal globalization. Its framework makes significant connections between debt restructuring, privatizations, free-market policies, and grassroots efforts to create alternatives to social and economic exclusion
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-228) and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed
Subject Sugar trade -- Mexico
Labor movement -- Mexico
Marginality, Social -- Mexico
Neoliberalism -- Mexico
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Labor movement
Marginality, Social
Neoliberalism
Sugar trade
Mexico
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021675842
ISBN 9780739182260
0739182269
0739182250
9780739182253