Research Catalog

Title

Social movements and economic transition : markets and distributive conflict in Mexico / Heather L. Williams.

Author

Williams, Heather L.

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

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Details

Description

xiii, 239 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"This book examines patterns of political mobilization among groups in Mexico whose livelihoods have been threatened by trade opening, fiscal retrenchment, and market liberalization. Using data from case studies of a worker-based movement and a farmer-based movement, Williams argues that economic transition, in altering modes of state-society bargaining, has altered the form and shape of distributive protest. Williams further argues that social movements make strategic choices in their use of resources to widen their constituencies and extend the length of their insurgencies."--Jacket.

Subject

• Since 1994
• Social movements > Mexico > Case studies
• Economic history
• Economic policy
• Social movements
• Sociale bewegingen
• Politieke mobilisatie
• Economische politiek
• Economische situatie
• Mouvements sociaux > Mexique
• Mexico > Economic policy > 1994-
• Mexico > Economic conditions > 1994-
• Mexico
• Mexique > Politique économique > 1994- ..
• Mexique > Conditions économiques > 1994- ..

Genre/Form

• Case studies.
• Études de cas.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-231) and index.

Contents

1. Markets, Machine Politics, and Protest in Mexico -- 2. The Insurgent's Toolbox -- 3. Privatization and Protest in a Steel Town -- 4. Shifting Markets, Shifting Demands in Lazaro Cardenas -- 5. The Rise of the Barzon Farmers' Movement in Zacatecas -- 6. The Barzon Movement: From a Farmers' to a Debtors' Insurgency -- Conclusion: The Interplay of Movements and Markets.

ISBN

• 0521772567
• 9780521772563

LCCN

00036303

OCLC

• ocm43708649
• 43708649
• SCSB-8976497

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library