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Author Rhodes, Sybil, 1969-

Title Social movements and free-market capitalism in Latin America : telecommunications privatization and the rise of consumer protest / Sybil Rhodes
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 228 pages)
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Archive Political Science and Policy Studies Foundation
Contents Consumer 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-214) and index
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Subject 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
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Media & Communications.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Telecommunications.
Consumer protection
Privatization
Protest movements
Telecommunication
Latin America
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004029611
ISBN 1423747909
9781423747901
0791465977
9780791465974
0791482588
9780791482582