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Title Crisis and contradiction : Marxist perspectives on Latin America in the global political economy / edited by Susan J. Spronk and Jeffery R. Webber
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Historical Materialism Book Series
Historical materialism book series.
Contents Acknowledgements; List of Figures and Tables; List of Abbreviations; Note on Contributors; Chapter 1 Introduction -- Systemic Logics and Historical Specificity: Renewing Historical Materialism in Latin American Political Economy; Part 1 The 'New' Working Class: Decomposition and Recomposition under Neoliberalism; Chapter 2 Roots of Resistance to Urban Water Privatisation in Bolivia: The 'New Working Class', the Crisis of Neoliberalism, and Public Services
Chapter 3 The Neo-Developmentalist Alternative: Capitalist Crisis, Popular Movements, and Economic Development in Argentina since the 1990sChapter 4 The Reproduction of Democratic Neoliberalism in Argentina: Kirchner's 'Solution' to the Crisis of 2001; Chapter 5 Doubly Marginalised? Women Workers in Northeast Brazilian Export Horticulture; Chapter 6 Emergent Socialist Hegemony in Bolivarian Venezuela: The Rôle of the Party; Chapter 7 Venezuela's Social Transformation and Growing Class Struggle
Chapter 8 Socialist Management and Natural Resource Based Industrial Production: A Critique of Cogestión in VenezuelaPart 2 State and Market in Late Capitalist Development; Chapter 9 Conspicuous Silences: State and Class in Structuralist and Neostructuralist Thought; Chapter 10 Sugarcane Ethanol: The Hen of the Golden Eggs? Agribusiness and the State in Lula's Brazil; Chapter 11 From Global Capital Accumulation to Varieties of Centre-Leftism in South America: The Cases of Brazil and Argentina; Chapter 12 The Three Dimensions of the Crisis
Chapter 13 Revolution against 'Progress': Neo-Extractivism, the Compensatory State, and the TIPNIS Conflict in BoliviaReferences; Index
Summary This volume focuses on changes to class formation and the state-form in Latin America. It explores the relationships between state and market in countries endowed with vast natural resource wealth such as Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Venezuela
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Economic development -- Political aspects -- Latin America
Marxian economics -- Latin America
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- General.
Economic development -- Political aspects
Economic history
Economic policy
Marxian economics
SUBJECT Latin America -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074888
Latin America -- Economic policy
Subject Latin America
Form Electronic book
Author Spronk, Susan
Webber, Jeffery R
ISBN 9789004271074
9004271074