Social movements in Latin America Neoliberalism and popular resistance /

The authors trace out the development of capitalism and U.S. imperialism in Latin America in the latest phase of this development, from the installation of the new world order of neoliberal globalization in the early 1980s to the present when U.S. imperialism is held at bay, neoliberalism is in decl...

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Main Authors: Petras, James F., 1937
Group Author: Veltmeyer, Henry
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Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230117075
Summary: The authors trace out the development of capitalism and U.S. imperialism in Latin America in the latest phase of this development, from the installation of the new world order of neoliberal globalization in the early 1980s to the present when U.S. imperialism is held at bay, neoliberalism is in decline, and capitalism is in crisis.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9780230104112, 2011.
Carrier Form: 286 p.
ISBN: 9780230104112
9780230117075 :
0230117074 :
CLC: K02
Contents: U.S. Imperialism and the Neoliberal Offensive * Capitalist Development, Labor, and the Rural Poor: The Politics of Adjustment (Non-Resistance) * Dynamics of Agrarian Transformation and Resistance * Neoliberalism and the Social Movements: Mobilizing the Resistance * Turning the Social Movements: Civil Society to the Rescue * A Turning of the Tide: The Center-Left Comes to Power * Social Movements in a Time of Crisis * Latin America in the Vortex of Social Change.